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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 169–196.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Jonathan Imber Shaw © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Unnatural Acts, Exceptional States
Unnatural Acts, Exceptional States
Jonathan Imber Shaw
In a brief essay from 1960, Lone Star State native Donald Barthelme
contends that “it is frequently painful for a Texan to decide that he...
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 (2008) 54 (1): 105–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Rossetti, Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, James
Joyce, and Jean Rhys, Marshik offers incisive readings of both canoni
cal and neglected texts, and reveals instances of artistic self-censorship
through the review of manuscript materials. Drawing on Michael Levine’s
Writing through Repression...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 443–473.
Published: 01 December 2006
...— George Bernard Shaw remarked in 1914
Twentieth-Century Literature 52.4 Winter 2006 443
Laura Frost
that “The cinema is going to form the mind of EnglandThe cinema
is a much more momentous invention than the printing press” (9)2— the
coming o f sound was greeted by many...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 467–490.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... The first substantial
exchange with Lucy is illustrative. Accompanying her on a visit to meet
Bev and Bill Shaw, David is repelled by the smells and sights of animals
in their house: “cat urine dog mange birds in cages cats every
where underfoot” (73). The garden is just as bad:
Through...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 224–254.
Published: 01 June 2011
...
scheme vaguely recalls the tourist development plan for the Irish town of
Ruscullen envisioned by Tom Broadbent, the English capitalist in George
Bernard Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island, a work Martha Black identifies as
having an influence on both character and plot in Ulysses (204, 225-27...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 423–444.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the figure of the scientist in works by H. G. Wells
and George Bernard Shaw “suggest both writers’ concern with the ethics
of experimentation at a time when scientific knowledge was increasing
faster than awareness of its social implications” (492–93).
As it turns out, numerous scholars—apparently...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 238–268.
Published: 01 June 2000
... romantics, popular socialist playwrights like Shaw, the spectacle
of musical theater at the Gaiety, and the conservative bourgeois art encour
aged by the Slade School under Henry Tonks. In “Manifesto II,” Lewis in
sisted that the British “industrial island machine” (Blast 23) should produce
new art...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 269–292.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to the experience of reading The Waste Land . The theatricality of The Waste Land is expertly captured in Fiona Shaw’s single-actor, sundry-voiced performance of the poem, which premiered at La Théâtre du Vaudeville in Brussels in 1995 and traveled to Dublin, London, Paris, New York, and Madrid. 4 Shaw...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 596–618.
Published: 01 December 2013
... the
feminized role of kept boy for closeted Hollywood film star Ronald Shaw,
Vidal carefully preserves Jim’s masculinity, as when Shaw tells Jim “I also
didn’t think you could be made. You don’t seem the type” to be seduced
by another man, and Jim feels “pleased” (70). After Shaw introduces Jim to
LA’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... .” In Friedman , 15 – 29 . Rustin Michael . 1994 . “ Unfinished Business: From Thatcherite Modernisation to Incomplete Modernity .” In Altered States: Postmodernism, Politics, Culture , edited by Perryman Mark , 73 – 93 . London : Lawrence and Wishart . Shaw Katy . 2007...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 12–31.
Published: 01 March 2003
... h e twentieth century saw successive waves of American writers on
France, from James and Wharton to the so-called lost generation of Stein,
Hemingway, Miller, Fitzgerald, et al. in the twenties and thirties, and on
to the post-WorldWar II generation of James Jones, Jack Kerouac, Irwin
Shaw...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Lytle Shaw makes a related point about contingencies of meaning; focusing
on O’Hara’s use of proper names, Shaw argues that O’Hara “stages the proper
name’s entrance into poetic discourse as a site of contested, appropriated, tacti-
cally wielded meaning—meaning whose contingency announces itself...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Africa, with
the words too many repeated often.
With Lucy pregnant by her rapists and moving closer to her newly
empowered neighbor Petrus, Lurie confesses to Bev Shaw that he is not
getting on well with his daughter. The problem, from Lurie’s point of
view, lies with “the people she lives...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
... original broadcast: by Barry Kyle of the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1974, and by Robert Shaw at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London in January 2009. 11 Indeed, manifesting the text’s generic indeterminacy, where Soloski saw the text as a poem, not a play, Shaw reports...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 279–285.
Published: 01 June 2009
... children, and his conversion to the rootedness
and longevity of Catholicism—all converging in his jocular and witty but
no less defiant resistance to his secular foes (Pater, Nietzsche, Wilde, Shaw,
Kipling, Wells, Tolstoy). In his essay “Is Humanism a Religion?” he writes:
“I distrust spiritual...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 494–519.
Published: 01 December 2003
...
list, most notably including Bernard Shaw (Mumby and Norrie 279,
345-46).10
Although the publication history and spare presentation of H.D.’s first
book have received little attention, excellent scholarship on Sea Garden
illuminates its content and strategies, including its floral...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 March 2010
... society”
(Archer-Shaw 142). As Simon Gikandi points out, few modernists made a
clear distinction between African and African American. That is, “African”
was often assigned to a person or culture without regard to culture or
birthplace (hence the confusion in the Boomlay BOOM poets between...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 491–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and George Bernard Shaw, Smith appears to abandon On Beauty ’s self-awareness in favor of a liberal humanist fantasy in which the literary imagination is capable of truly embodying other identities. Hale is critical of Smith’s valorization of Obama but also sees it as existing in a different discursive...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 June 2010
... The Naked and the
Dead [1948Hutner adds names such as Irwin Shaw, Kay Boyle, Nelson
273
Alison Shonkwiler
Algren, Sloan Wilson, Wallace Stegner, James Cain, Betty Smith, Charles
Jackson, Chester Himes, and Eudora Welty. Hutner gives us novels that are
surprisingly diverse, even...
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