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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 474–481.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Phillip Barrish Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather , by Petrie Paul R. , Tuscaloosa : University o f Alabama Press , 2005 . 256 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 m
Reviews
Literary Realism and Social...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 460–483.
Published: 01 December 2015
... landscape’s association with topographical detail and the visual-pictorial, and thus with forms of description and mimetic realism seemingly tangential to modernist aesthetics (as Bowen herself writes, “what gives fiction its verisimilitude is its topography” [1975, 34]). Yet critics have recently challenged...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 364–371.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Madhu Dubey 2011 Madhu Dubey
Post-Postmodern Realism?
Madhu Dubey
In his 1989 manifesto for “the new social novel,” Tom Wolfe com-
plained that contemporary American novelists were failing to take on the
pressing social issues of their time. Since the 1960s—in other words...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 521–527.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and Fielding . Berkeley : University of California Press . The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism , by Holland Mary K. . New York : Bloomsbury , 2020 . 288 pages. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 Early in her compelling first book, Succeeding Postmodernism (2014) , Mary...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 139–162.
Published: 01 June 2021
... problematic through its handling of history and time. Examining this struggle in Lessing’s writing can shed light on how the interplay of space and time informs the intertwined histories of realism and modernism in twentieth-century fiction, and on how Lessing’s work contributes to current debates about...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 582–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Regina Martin Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Regina Martin
The Drama of Gender and Genre
in Edith Wharton’s Realism
Regina Martin
Edith Wharton’s depiction of the socially ambitious Undine Spragg’s
peregrinations through New York and French “society” suggests...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Brian Gingrich This article locates the place of Willa Cather’s work in literary history by revealing its relation to a central tradition of aesthetics. If at times her work has seemed to waver between romanticism and realism, if today it seems destined to be associated with modernism, yet another...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Press, 2009. 432 pages
Alison Shonkwiler
What constitutes middle-class fiction? Is it subject matter? A degree of
realism or attention to detail? Or can it be defined simply by identify-
ing which novels middle-class readers read? Presumably a case could be
made, following the historical...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2014
... as a destructively recursive process.
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The Historical Novel at History’s End: Virginia Woolf’s The Years
Late modernism, realism, and the historical novel
How might the shape and mediating powers of the historical novel alter
during a decade as troubled as the 1930s? As so many have already pointed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 86–104.
Published: 01 March 2011
...
with Being, are its final work. (566)
We read at the start of Elizabeth Costello, after a brief description of
the eponymous character’s attire and appearance: “the blue costume, the
greasy hair, are details, signs of a moderate realism. Supply the particulars,
allow the significations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 528–534.
Published: 01 December 2015
...—whether that be an old or an expanded canon—but as “a way of reading.” Chapter 2, “The Global Life of Genres,” expands on the idea of world literature as a way of reading by attending to a specific kind of novel: the sort of narrative that came to be labeled “magical realism.” Siskind offers a lucid...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 423–446.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to be celebrated as indicating a general
return to realism as the dominant narrative mode of literary fiction and
with it a renewed commitment to representing the emotional lives of real
people.3
Yet this cluster of assumptions that stems from the affective hypothesis
diminishes the degree to which...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2008
...
these stories appear so whimsical, slight, or nonserious, eschewing realism,
drawing instead on the genre of the fantastic. But this deceptive form,
as I will argue here, is precisely what encodes a covert politics, allowing
Forster to publish material that addresses homosexual desire and to link...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 233–247.
Published: 01 September 2007
... into high postmodernism— in difficult formal innova
tion as the defining characteristic o f serious literature (Steiner 427-28).
This is not to condemn formally challenging fiction in the name o f some
transparent realism, as Tom Wolfe, Dale Peck, and Jonathan Franzen have
done,1 but rather...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 379–386.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and leisure—sexuality, prostitution, drink—where the bourgeoisie and lower classes got adulterated, but also for the way its programmatic immediacy and rapidity issued in works that to viewers accustomed to realism seemed like scandalously unfinished sketches. The movement famously got its name in 1874 when...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 385–391.
Published: 01 September 2020
... , Futurism , and Acmeism . After problematizing the names on the map, Livak moves to examine defective devices of orientation. Chapter 2, titled “The Errant Compass Rose of Russian Modernist Studies,” deconstructs the main oppositions through which scholars have framed their object of study: realism versus...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 380–390.
Published: 01 December 2011
....1 Realism, naturalism,
primitivism, literary modernism, and postmodernism—these are some of
the cultural formations where that irony has been fitfully recorded, and
their accumulation must give one pause before declaring the arrival of
something new. The term I would apply...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 131–163.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and innovation over finely honed realism and writerly discipline. In
such a critical climate, Bennett’s best-known novel, The Old Wives’ Tale
(1908), will appear to confirm his place on the margins of modernism:
the text narrates personal and cultural histories of industrial Staffordshire
(the “Five...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of fictional texts since socialist realism. Thatcherite shifts in discourse have been particularly pronounced in representations of class status. In keeping with Margaret Thatcher’s remark that “class is a Communist concept. It groups people as bundles and sets them against one another” (1992), John Major...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Carol Singley offers an excellent example of Wharton straddling more than one genre in her reading of Lily Bart’s death in The House of Mirth as a “sentimental departure from realism—a mix of genre that marks the text as modernist” (1998, 83). For rich discussions of how sentimentalism mixes...
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