Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 246 Search Results for
science
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 273–304.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Colin Gillis Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Lawrence’s Bildungsroman and the Science of Sexual Development
Lawrence’s Bildungsroman and the Science
of Sexual Development
Colin Gillis
In the 1922 postscript to Sigmund Freud’s “Analysis of a Phobia in a
Five-Year-Old Boy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Lisi Schoenbach Modernism: Evolution of an Idea , by Latham Sean Rogers Gayle . New York : Bloomsbury , 2015 . 266 pages. Modernism’s Print Cultures , by Hamill Faye Hussey Mark . New York : Bloomsbury , 2016 . 220 pages. Modernism, Science, and Technology...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 345–349.
Published: 01 September 2016
....” In the afterword, Walter shows how this new optical theory, especially the idea of optical impersonality, can be useful for affect studies. Walter suggests that “impersonality is a persistent way of thinking about science, art, being, perceiving, and knowing” (271). Similarly, she parallels her theories...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... investment in eugenic science as a tool of social reform. The novel draws on popular scientific theories of human perfection—electric medicine, hygienic nutrition, and glandular theory—to envision a mode of technological reproduction that troubles eugenic theories of biological inheritance and parodies...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Laura Otis Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Monkey in the Mirror: The Science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau
Monkey in the Mirror:
The Science of Professor Higgins
and Doctor Moreau
Laura Otis
In 1916, when George Bernard Shaw published Pygmalion in book form,
he...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Carrie Rohman Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in American Modernity , by Seitler Dana , Minnesota University Press , 2008 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 ReviewsReview
Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science
in American Modernity
by Dana...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Carrie J. Preston Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse: H. D., Loy, and Toomer , by Vetter Lara , Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . 219 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review
Reviews
Religion and Science in the Making
of Modernist Bodies
Modernist...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 145–169.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of Lübeck and John Glenn’s World’s Fair appearance; aspects of the Raketen-Stadt and the fair’s US Science Pavilion; and Pynchon’s many towers and elevators and that signature feature of Century 21, the Space Needle. The conclusion attends to the fair’s traces in Against the Day and Bleeding Edge...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
... or anthropological, heritage—when she represents characters’ undeserved, uncompensated pains. Woolf’s thinking aligns her with Charles Darwin in the natural sciences. Like Darwin, Woolf makes tragic chance inseparable from the theater of life. This essay reads Woolf’s oft-cited rejection of teleological form and her...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 187–189.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Michele Elam The winner of this year’s prize is Mark A. Tabone’s “Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues.” The judge is Michele Elam. Elam’s scholarship and teaching in interdisciplinary humanities research spans literature and social science...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Helena Feder While we are increasingly challenged to imagine a world without humans, we have also become increasingly attentive to the subject of empathy, in popular culture, the humanities, and the sciences. In The Time Machine (1895), and a number of essays on evolution or extinction, H. G. Wells...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Daniel Aureliano Newman Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism , by Hovanec Caroline . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 225 pages. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 In one of the great essays on literature and science, Stephen Jay...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 268–282.
Published: 01 September 2004
... that it is Darwin who shares her ideas about the lack of a “split”
between the conscious and the unconscious mind, not the surrealists.1
In order to make sense of this strange maneuver, Bishop’s comments
need to be examined in two related contexts: first the general appeal to
science...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 93–124.
Published: 01 June 2007
...
(or literary critics, or humanists) read science? What cultural strictures or
habits of thought make us regard the invocation of Darwin’s name—es
pecially when it comes to explanations of culture—with suspicion? In
answering these questions I do not propose to stake out a position on
exactly how...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the human, a concept that the sciences
of Woolf’s time were steadily, if ambivalently, eroding.1 This distinction
between human and nonhuman orders of being has been called “the most
devastating imaginary of our epoch” (Esposito 161), and the growing
interest in this threshold across a range...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 539–574.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., units of matter in
dynamic (chemical or gravitational) interaction.1 The lines demonstrate
Merrill’s close identification of mental losses with material ones, and
reveal in a rather minimal but clear form Merrill’s absorption of language
and imagery from the sciences of the mind. Less clear...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): vi–x.
Published: 01 June 2007
... Read Poetry? Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love" homes
right in on my own literary critic’s readerly resistance with virtu
ally shocking, laser-like precision. To cite one of the closing lines of
the argument, literary critics can’t read science (nor do they always
want to) when, like...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 311–327.
Published: 01 September 2000
... must get in touch with the
contemporary scene, and not necessarily the literary one; the scien
tific one perhaps. (Baker and Golding, letter 12 August 1965)
Science? What could he mean? Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors, as many
readers recognized, had displayed a broad knowledge...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 372–379.
Published: 01 December 2011
... this magical status.
In response to language’s putative decline, scholars of the humanities
have typically attempted to reinvest in language’s relevance by emphasiz-
ing the antagonism and incompatibility between humanistic learning,
on the one hand, and science and technology, on the other. Martin...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 447–471.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that of postmodernism as their central organizing category, a shift
that had already taken a place at least a decade earlier in the social sciences.
This may appear to be an odd shift between concepts that at first sight
seem to share little in common. While questions of knowledge construc-
tion, discourse...
1
