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“Not Grace, Then, but at Least the Body”: Accounting for the Self in Coetzee’s Age of Iron
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 168–195.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Rachel Ann Walsh Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Rachel Ann Walsh
“Not Grace, Then, but at Least the Body”:
Accounting for the Self in Coetzee’s Age of Iron
Rachel Ann Walsh
If I look back over my own fiction, I see a simple (simple-mind-
ed?) standard...
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Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives , by John D. Barbour
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 372–378.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Robert Azzarello [email protected] Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives , by Barbour John D. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . 334 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 One of the most central...
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Dogdom: Nonhuman Others and the Othered Self in Kafka, Beckett, and Auster
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 271–288.
Published: 01 September 2016
... still remain close. I make the claim that, as with speaking in place of another, speaking for oneself also entails the production of an other, and that these efforts to read and give voices to dogs point toward the rupture of the self-reflective human subject. In featuring their failed attempts to write...
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Leopold Bloom’s Dark Riddle: Joyce, Levinas, and the Storytelling Self
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 359–378.
Published: 01 December 2016
... “dark riddles” that compose Bloom’s discursive negotiations, it concludes that Joyce demonstrates the vital role self-narrativizing plays in countering existential isolation, and that his narrative technique is in important ways aligned with Levinas’s conception of an ethics of love. Copyright ©...
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Flannery O’Connor, the Phenomenology of Race, and the Institutions of Irony
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 237–260.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Benjamin Mangrum This essay argues that the representation of race in O’Connor’s short story “The Artificial Nigger” (1955) owes a debt to the continental tradition of phenomenology. Rather than being an abstract philosophical position, this debt signals O’Connor’s self-positioning within...
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Robert Lowell, the New Critics, and the “Unforgivable Landscape” of Liberalism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
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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White-Collar Masochism: Grove Press and the Death of the Managerial Subject
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... as of editorial discourse such as advertising and marketing surveys, this essay argues that the masochistic fantasies of self-shattering featured in Grove’s publications allowed its imagined audience of professional-managerial class radicals to appear to transcend their economic positions. In the pages of Grove...
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Murphy and Peace
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 352–372.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Jeff Wallace This article stages a process of self-conscious critical assessment and reassessment around the proposition that Samuel Beckett’s 1938 Murphy is a novel intimately concerned with peace. Building on the pacifistic orientation of the posthumanist intellectual projects of Michel Serres...
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Negative Cosmopolitanism: The Case of V. S. Naipaul
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 June 2020
... but, rather, a painful process of self-negation. Traversing a world profoundly shaped by colonialism, the writer and his characters are at a loss to make sense of their historical lineage and their place in a rapidly changing landscape. Through a reading of The Loss of El Dorado (1969) and A Bend in the River...
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Nella Larsen’s Quicksand , Recalcitrant Subjects, and Wrong Feeling
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 359–384.
Published: 01 December 2021
... feeling.” Wrong feeling is a peculiarly twentieth-century phenomenon—an enactment of the modernist allergy to sentiment that nonetheless takes up modernism’s key tropes. Manifesting as affective overflowing, it has no discernible locus in either self or world and yields a series of repetitive, frustrating...
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The Homoerotics of “Negrotarian” Patronage in Langston Hughes’s “The Blues I’m Playing”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with topics like racialized obsession, the role of community in a black artist’s self-concept, and the best avenues for interracial solidarity across planes of difference. Understanding mature women’s legitimacy as sexual subjects and the persistence of queer loneliness (despite class and race privilege) also...
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“A Dirty Word These Days”: Anglo-Saxonism, Race, and Kinship in Go Set a Watchman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and southern US culture the novel uncritically offers as the true nature of Jim Crow society. By emphasizing Lee’s self-conscious deployment of literary history in her construction of an Anglo-Saxon racial essence, the article distinguishes between the novel’s reactionary critiques of colorblind liberalism...
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What Bertha Knows: Proprietary Narration in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 437–465.
Published: 01 December 2022
... free indirect style, at the least, allows Bertha to be read as knowing, deliberate, and complicit in her apparent ignorance. In conjunction with the text’s critique of gender roles and expectations, Mansfield’s free indirect style implicitly criticizes her reader’s willingness to sideline Bertha’s self...
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Setting The Waste Land in Order
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 431–454.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the tutelage of Bertrand Russell, Eliot turns to logic in an attempt to discern a coherent system for numbers (and therefore life), but he grows disenchanted with how logic’s paradoxes of self-reference undermines that very possibility. In turn, these paradoxes inform The Waste Land as an irrational subtext...
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James Weldon Johnson’s Feminization of Biraciality
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
... three facets of the lives of many biracial men: (1) hypervisibility (in a world obsessed with skin color), (2) sexuality (when identification is distorted), and (3) self-determination (where a racial hierarchy appears to eliminate agency). In its conclusion, the article suggests that the prevailing...
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Unbinding the Subject: James Baldwin on the Evil That Is in the World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 March 2024
....” Such transformation comes about when the subject yields to the forces of sex and finitude. These forces—which Baldwin also calls “corruption”—have two functions. First, the subject’s unbinding, through corruption, enables the emergence of what Baldwin calls “the self.” Only with such emergence can we break from...
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Historical Violence and Modernist Forms in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., antihomogenizing historiography comes closer to what Wicomb values in Conrad and Joyce. Finally, the author shows how the novel offers a critique of the poststructuralist/postmodernist understanding of language as authorless and self-canceling, arguing that this view has, historically speaking, functioned...
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“Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways”: Curiosity in Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... private project of self-cultivation. The article critically assesses this position, traces its implications in Wharton’s fiction and nonfiction, and briefly reviews its place within the broader context of liberal thought from Kant, through Matthew Arnold, to Lionel Trilling. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra...
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Dismembering Remembering: Mourning with Disgust in Delbo’s Auschwitz and After
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
... unspeakability of the events, Delbo’s text oscillates between self-consciously aestheticized language and graphic physical representations of abject bodies. The irruptive visceral descriptions confront the reader with automatic, embodied repulsion in order to highlight the gaps in symbolization...
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The Queer Afterlife of Gossip: James Merrill’s “Celestial Salon”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 387–412.
Published: 01 December 2018
... but as a mode of fostering and preserving nonnormative voices, converting the privacy imposed on the homosexual into the conditions for creating queer worlds. Gossip concomitantly provides Merrill with a model of poetic self-performance that at once pushes against and embraces New Critical ideals of lyric...
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