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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 247–270.
Published: 01 September 2016
... he wrote in France. Confusing its position further is the fact that Watt , though written during the Second World War, was not published until 1953, and so appeared to the public after Godot (1952) and the first two novels in the Trilogy had already begun to shape the author’s critical reception...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 153–181.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Benjamin Schreier Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 u \ Desire’s Second Act: “Race” and The Great Gatsby’s Cynical Americanism Benjamin Schreier I once thought that there were no second acts in American lives. —Fitzgerald, “My Lost City” (31) F e w...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Martin McKinsey Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 m Classicism and Colonial Retrenchment in W. B.Yeats’s “No Second Troy” Martin McKinsey X rom the moment I began The Wanderings of Oisin,” wrote W B.Yeats of the title poem of his 1889 collection, “my subject-matter became...
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Published: 01 September 2024
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 333–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the film form,” Ellison sought in this second novel both to explore the artistic possibilities of film and to expose the dangers of this potent medium. This essay examines three interrelated ways that movies matter to Ellison’s literary experiments. First, it argues that Ellison’s ambivalence about...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Cheryl Alison In 1952, Ralph Ellison published Invisible Man to acclaim, though the novel’s subterranean ending has inspired critical debate. For over forty years afterward, he worked on his second novel, unfinished when he died in 1994. This article considers what was at stake for Ellison both...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the symposium, this essay uses the terms established in “Feeling and Precision” to recalibrate the ethical turn Moore’s poetry took during and after the Second World War. Drawing on the lecture’s emphasis on the “compulsion to unbearable accuracy,” the essay traces the transition from the commitment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the atrocities of the Second World War—including freezing, starvation, immolation, and enslavement—to mitigate Lecter’s cannibalistic classism and restore his humanity. Lecter is rendered mute by the trauma of consuming his sister, the patrician Lecter Castle becomes a Soviet orphanage, and Lecter’s eventual...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of recuperating the English translation of the diary within the context of the scant supporting historical documentation and memorialization of Berliner women’s experience during the occupation. Second, it demonstrates how the diary produces a feminist account of survival and a narrative for collective trauma...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 June 2024
... novels from obscuring to displaying signs of technological mediation, while the second half aligns this trend with an editorial process that foregrounded the role of the typewriter. Tracing these ideas to an analogous theory of the unconscious by psychologist William James, who gave currency...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... second chapter, and the placement of Gurnah’s character, Kalasinga, as a Naipaul figure within the novel’s action. Gurnah’s novelistic play dramatizes the tension and concordance between his own generation’s and Naipaul’s postcolonial articulations. 43 It’s not hard to speculate that Gurnah is more...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the structures that have created the subject, specular identifications that, as Baldwin saw it, entrapped Bigger Thomas ( Native Son ) and Gabriel Grimes ( Go Tell It on the Mountain ). Second, the “transformation” demanded by sex and finitude can preempt the “evil” that, writing in the immediate aftermath...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in white subjects by bolstering their sense of their own virtue, and how this happiness alienates African Americans, for whom antiracism is embedded in the experience of ongoing racial violence. Writing in the heyday of second-wave feminism, Walker examines how, even as antiracism shores up happy feeling...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 513–519.
Published: 01 December 2020
... offers graceful readings of pandemic traces in three canonical modernist works: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925), T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), and W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (1919). In true modernist style, her readings make new again Woolf’s narrative texture, Eliot’s fragments...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 619–656.
Published: 01 December 2013
... attention. But Eliot-the-adolescent gets rather a drubbing. By way of indirect example to the graduating students, Eliot chastises his adolescent self on three accounts. First, he needs to learn to stop borrowing his thoughts, desires, and feelings second-hand from others: “It is bad enough to think...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the major organs of speech, which Janet, as a rigorous physiologist, discusses in detail and at length: diaphragm, lungs, epiglottis, trachea, glottis, pharynx, larynx, tongue, teeth, lips, and nose. In the second part of the lecture, Janet divides the “infinite variety” of the tics of respiration...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., and ancient structures, he proposes this interest depends on two conditions: first, “that the object instilling the interest in us be nature or at least be considered such by us” and, second, “that it be naive (in the widest sense of the term), i.e., that nature stand in contrast with art and shame...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 618–623.
Published: 01 December 2009
... concept of Hum- 619 Colin Milburn berto Maturana and Francisco Varela, and the second-order cybernetics (“cybernetics of cybernetics”) of Heinz von Foerster, among others. These neocybernetic theories have moved beyond the limitations of the first generation of cybernetic information...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 42–60.
Published: 01 March 2006
... chuckles from readers, recourse to Moore’s later work is not the only way to rebut her critics. I want to offer here an extended reading of “You’re Ugly, Too” in order to suggest that, as early as her second collection of short stories, Moore en­ gages the moral and aesthetic questions that readers...