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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 524–531.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Kristin Bluemel Modernism, Satire, and the Novel , by Greenberg Jonathan , Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 220 pages. 2012 Kristin Bluemel
Modernism, Satire, and the Novel
by Jonathan Greenberg
Cambridge University Press, 2011. 220 pages
Kristin Bluemel
The first...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 455–482.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Adam Parkes Pairing D. H. Lawrence with Aldous Huxley, this essay explores representations of aristocracy—hereditary and intellectual—in British modernism. Lawrence and Huxley often associate aristocracy with stupidity, satirizing the expertise of the expert as well as the intellectual vacancy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Heather Arvidson This essay traces a critique of anti-sentimentalist leftist impersonality in the critically underestimated and best-selling novel The Unpossessed (1934). Tess Slesinger’s satire parodies the deadened affect that results from programmatic refusals of subjectivity and personal life...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 223–246.
Published: 01 June 2018
... work beyond the satiric circumstances of its creation, and the experience of this ostensibly mock-alternative avant-garde ended up having long-term effects on both his and Ficke’s careers. This essay argues that engaging with Spectra beyond its existence as a hoax allows us to explore its wider...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Lisa Mullen The shocking defamiliarization of the everyday that took place during World War II created a crisis in modernist aesthetics. This crisis emerges both in Eliot’s anguished meditation on time, space, and infinity in “East Coker,” and in Powell and Pressburger’s playful satire about...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Kim Adams In 1931, African American journalist George Schuyler imagined a medical treatment that could turn Black people white and American politics upside down. Schuyler’s novel, Black No More , uses this fictional race-altering technology to mount a satirical critique of progressive era...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 105–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
... a “modern” agenda for his work. The chapter
offers a useful reminder of the direct aim Shaw took at purity campaign
ers in his now-neglected melodrama The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet. As
Marshik notes, the play includes a “Vigilance Committee” made up of
debauched drunks, thereby satirizing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 513–537.
Published: 01 December 2014
... that is not actually offensive or
frightening.” This is not an unusual caveat (Aristotle makes the same
qualification in thePoetics 7), but here it has surprising implications. We
understand Orwell as a writer of incessant attack, and if there is a form
of humor that is associated with Orwell, it is satire...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 September 2001
... characteristics of the genre: a fascination with the unreal na
ture of Southern California as well as the movie world, satire of new
religious and health fads, ridicule of the absurdities of the movie indus
try (particularly as regards screenwriters), and comic attention to land
scape...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 545–554.
Published: 01 December 2014
... (1995)—which linked outlandish
postmodern fiction like Pynchon’s to the carnivalesque impulse of
Menippean satire—the chapter characterizes Gravity’s Rainbow as part
of the tradition of the “stunningly corrosive satirical work of the Long
Sixties” (71), framing the novel’s 1966-1971 composition...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 237–238.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in this reading to be a biting and witty satire of the way articulate principled convictions can lead to the derailing of other significant human and social needs, and even prevent broader meaningful communication. One of the most exciting aspects of this essay is its astute representation of the language...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 339–361.
Published: 01 September 2008
...” (209). In Eugene Dums-
day, The Satanic Verses offers fierce satire of creationists who imagine that
creation occurs ex nihilo and once and for all. But Darwinian evolution
ary principles only apply to change now. The newness of an idea such as
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Neil ten Kortenaar
Mahound’s does...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 419–447.
Published: 01 December 2008
...’ lies in [his]
powerful ironic and thus satiric vision of the immense distance between
verbal construct and actuality in twentieth-century America” (185).
Until the relatively recent popularity of The Onion and The Daily
Show as sources of political information as well as humor, verbal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 378–384.
Published: 01 September 2005
...
Wideman’s stylistically ambitious novel about the MOVE bombings,
Philadelphia Fire (1990); and Tom Wolfe’s satire of Reagan-era New York,
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987).
Each of these works is about the American city, about its decline and
redevelopment, about who gets to live...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 572–596.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., if only provisionally, that both critics may
have missed the mark. The inconsistencies of Ape and Essence—we can
certainly agree that there are inconsistencies, even if we differ about their
meaning and value—in fact remind me of another underappreciated
dystopian satire: Ryunosuke...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., Lewis’s chief bibliographers, found only three contemporary re
views (288-89). The bad odor lingering from the receptions of The Apes
of God (1930), an enormous and impolitic satire on several highly rec
ognizable London literary figures, and of Hitler (1931), a myopic piece...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 516–538.
Published: 01 December 2011
... or satiric effects from their characters’
incomplete fulfillment of the expected type. For example, in Absurdistan,
Shteyngart’s soft-hearted consumerist hero Misha both fulfills and subverts
the type of the New Russian.4 Rather than adopting an exile’s stance of
mournful longing, coupled...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 31–46.
Published: 01 March 2008
... that
was considered scandalous, at least at the time, it is not surprising that
Bennett was frequently the object of satire. Even those who admired him
conceded that there was something ridiculous about him. In his otherwise
flattering biography of Bennett, Walter Allen, for example, writes that the
“public...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of the semantic range in West’s use of “fantasy,” framing it as both liberating and as destructive, and as relevant to personal imagining as to collective. My argument centers on West’s “London fantasy” Harriet Hume : a satirical romance styled according to a neo-Georgian aesthetic, in which feminist creative...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of curiosity, first in Wharton’s autobiographical writing, where it figures as an unqualified virtue, and then in her social satires. It is there, in her novels—a genre in which, in Northrop Frye’s words, “the technical problem is to dissolve all theory into personal relationship” (1990, 308)—that Wharton’s...
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