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I See France: Priorities in Nonfiction

Edward C. Knox
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 12–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2003-2007
Published: 01 March 2003
...Edward C. Knox Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 m I See France: Priorities in Nonfiction Edward C. Knox You would like this town. It’s full of liquor, amusing people & incredibly beautiful works of art. —Stephen Vincent Benêt, 1920 (qtd. in Bradbury 331) T...
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“Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen

Maren Linett
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 465–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2013-4005
Published: 01 September 2013
...Maren Linett © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 “Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge,and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen “Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen Maren Linett In What is Posthumanism?, Cary Wolfe enlists Temple...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the New Deal: Queer Poetics and the Welfare State in Key West

Eric Strand
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-9808104
Published: 01 June 2022
...Eric Strand Although our recovery of Elizabeth Bishop’s politics has involved seeing her as a resistant “outsider,” this essay argues that she was at her most challenging as an inhabitant of poetic institutions. Exemplifying the vexed status of the Depression-era writer after the crash...
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In Defense of Vineland : Pynchon, Anarchism, and the New Left

Michael O’Bryan
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-3485002
Published: 01 March 2016
... poorly understood in the academy. Turning a historicist eye toward the novel’s portrayal of the sixties, we see that it dramatizes actual debates among the New Left between anarchist figures, such as Paul Goodman and Murray Bookchin, and emergent neo-Leninist factions such as the Weather Underground...
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Buddhism and the Postmodern Novel: Severo Sarduy’s Cobra

Avram Alpert
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 32–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-3485014
Published: 01 March 2016
... writing in general and particular works of fiction. Sarduy’s Cobra and the criticism around it manifest the potential benefits of such a cross-disciplinary engagement. Although most critics have taken the novel to embody “Buddhist” themes, few have critically engaged the literature on Buddhism to see what...
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Robert Lowell, the New Critics, and the “Unforgivable Landscape” of Liberalism

Hugh Foley
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-8770706
Published: 01 December 2020
..., David Antin, and Maria Damon, who see Lowell’s poetic self as both solipsistic and symptomatic of an American liberal ideology. Demonstrating that Lowell’s views were formed by a critique of liberal individualism, it then attempts to show how Lowell moved beyond this in his later work, harnessing...
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Ammons’s Sublimes

Malcolm Woodland
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-10404926
Published: 01 March 2023
... understanding of its caution. Over the course of Ammons’s career, then, we see how the imaginative apprehension of an immanent Presence devolves into skeptical awareness of its merely subjective origins. [email protected] © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 desublimation immanence monism...
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Ordinary Culture in “The Dead”

Paul Stasi
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 149–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-11205345
Published: 01 June 2024
... that he has fled but that has also produced him. Both thinkers offer similar accounts of how English colonialism affects the consciousness of the colonized, producing the sort of elitist disdain we see in Gabriel as well as the ideal of an “authentic” Irish culture typically mobilized to critique him...
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Empire and the Rhetoric of Total War in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

Matthew Thompson
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-11399100
Published: 01 September 2024
..., this essay sees total war not as a descriptor of reality but rather as a rhetorical strategy that categorizes entire populations as ally or enemy—a binary that both emerges from and remains in tension with the binaries structuring imperialism (white/nonwhite, civilized/savage). Total war, that is, defines...
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The Consolation of Objects in Joyce’s: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses

Gregory Castle
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 267–298.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-4219927
Published: 01 September 2017
...Gregory Castle “The Consolation of Objects” takes seriously Nietzsche’s call to embrace what is, to love necessity. Amor fati for him entails the ability “to see what is necessary in things as what is beautiful in them.” Stephen Dedalus, in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...
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“Pigeons” and the Future of Moore Criticism

Heather Cass White
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 385–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-4298944
Published: 01 December 2017
... that those issues have seemed separate only because critics have thus far had an incomplete view of Moore’s work in the 1930s, the decade in which they converge. “Pigeons,” it concludes, is the salient poem for seeing the Protestant Moore and the scientific Moore come together in a deep exploration...
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The Queer Afterlife of Gossip: James Merrill’s “Celestial Salon”

Chad Bennett
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 387–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-7298985
Published: 01 December 2018
... subjectivity—a way of telling one’s own scandalous story through someone else’s words, even words intended as hostile, discovering poetic and sexual pleasures where others see only anxiety and dread. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 The Changing Light at Sandover Cold War sexuality queer...
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The Muse in the Museum: Cultural Institutions and Aesthetic Experience in H.d.’s Asphodel and Trilogy

Frank Capogna
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 379–402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-3764022
Published: 01 December 2016
... poem Trilogy , her personae’s affective, local experiences of historical art and artifacts in museums (and museological spaces) contest the authority of the disinterested “pure gaze” assumed by the museum’s ideal seeing subject. In these works, the museum functions as a space for cultural engagements...
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Index: Twentieth Century Literature Volumes 41–45, 1995–1999

Keith Dallas
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 115–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2000-2006
Published: 01 March 2000
... Stevensian Search for a Supreme Fiction in Sphere.”43.1 (1997): 40-55 Ahearn, Barry. “Poetry and Synthesis: The Art of Samuel Menashe.” 42.2 (1996): 294-308 Aldington, Richard. See Willis Alger, Horatio. See Pitofsky Ames, Christopher. “Carnivalesque Comedy in Between the Acts.” 44.4...
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Index: Twentieth-Century Literature Volumes 45–50, 2000–2004

Keith Dallas
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 114–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2005-2006
Published: 01 March 2005
...Keith Dallas Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Index: Twentieth-Century Literature Volumes 45-50,2000-2004 Compiled by Keith Dallas .^Vckroyd, Peter. See Ahearn Adair,William. “The Sun Abo Rises: A Memory of War.” 47.1 (2001): 72-91 Ahearn, Edward J. “The Modern English...
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Poets of Every Description

Stephen Cushman
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 244–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2005-3004
Published: 01 June 2005
...Stephen Cushman How Poets See the World: The Art o f Description in Contemporary Poetry , by Spiegelman Willard , New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 . 238 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 w Reviews Poets of Every Description How Poets See the World...
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The Novel Enfleshed: Naked Lunch and the Literature of Materiality

Christopher Breu
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 199–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2011-3005
Published: 01 June 2011
... Immanuel Wallerstein sees as the short period of American hegemony (1945-1989) to our own present era of financialization and increased globalization. Such a definition thus incorporates the eras of both high Fordism and post-Fordism, marking, according to Wallerstein, the A and B phases...
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Molly Astray: Revisioning Ireland in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney

Karen M. Moloney
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 285–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2000-4004
Published: 01 September 2000
..., in a country where the image of Woman-as-Ireland has long been tied to na­ tional political discourse, Molly Sweeney continues Friel’s tradition of politi­ cal theater. But even more to the point, though the play’s thematic empha­ sis on the relationship of seeing to understanding may not make it obvious...
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Behind a Pane of Glass: Collective Memory in Woolf’s Interwar London

Irene Yoon
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 49–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-3833465
Published: 01 March 2017
... York : Palgrave . Weinbaum Alys Eve . 2003 . “ Ways of Not Seeing: Engendering Modernity’s Optics in Baudelaire, Benjamin, Freud and Masereel .” In Loss , edited by Kazanjian D. Eng D. , 396 – 426 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Wicke Jennifer . 1994...
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Postmodernism and the Affective Turn

Rachel Greenwald Smith
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 423–446.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2011-4008
Published: 01 December 2011
... character traits, not social or cultural circumstances, and that individual emotions carry complex meaning that runs deeper than broad systemic dynamics.5 The piety with which we approach individual emotions sup- ports individualism in a range of other activities that we see as reflective...
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