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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Noreen Masud Critics of Stevie Smith’s work often lean on the word “flat.” Usually, the term is meant to evoke Smith’s “simplicity” and lack of ornamentation, her refusal to lift into “poetic resonance,” or her unreadable tone. This essay attends more closely to flatness in Smith’s work, exploring...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 455–482.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the rich and titled. And they satirize each other. But they do not follow Romantic poetry in idealizing the idiot, the simpleton, or figures of social deprivation, Huxley directly targeting Wordsworthian notions of virtuous simplicity in Those Barren Leaves (1925). Dissolving distinctions between rich...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 September 2009
... on his earlier brazenness and an attempt to
make explicit his desire to “move beyond the simplicity of one’s own
belief and the surety with which others are rejected” (90)—a simplicity
that finds echoes, again, in America’s triumphalism at the end of the Cold
War. Similarly, in his reading...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
.... They are easily found in Cather’s fiction. Early reviewers cited them repeatedly. When Randolph Bourne (1918 : 557) reviewed My Ántonia for the Dial , he remarked that it has all the artistic simplicity of material that has been patiently shaped until everything irrelevant has been scraped away. The story...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 232–259.
Published: 01 June 2013
... description of folk
voice, Lomax follows in the Romantic tradition of William Wordsworth,
equating the roughness and simplicity of folk songs with their authen-
ticity.3 In his preface to Our Singing Country (1941), Lomax anticipates
that the “cultivated ear” will likely mishear this music because, he...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 405–426.
Published: 01 December 2017
... complexity” over her later “didactic simplicity” ( AG xiii). Commenting on the same “didactic simplicity” in Moore’s later work, Linda Leavell also writes, “Self-respecting critics might now complain of her sentimentality but no longer of her inscrutability” (2013, 346). On the heels of Schulze’s work...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 451–474.
Published: 01 December 2017
... created a state of war, President Roosevelt’s message needed only to be a statement of that fact. But it was much more: with his skill in radio speaking the Commander-in-Chief welded a nation of listeners into a single great weapon of determined effort for victory. Note the simplicity, directness...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 403–428.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Bildung , most biologists had become dissatisfied with recapitulation, whose enchanting simplicity, universality, and linearity failed to fit the new facts of experimental embryology and Mendelian genetics. Increasingly, recapitulation was linked not to progressive evolution but to “specialization...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 323–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
...: his criterion is one of logic rather than of simplicity. Coetzee is here specifically addressing an episode near the middle of the novel, one where Watt ponders the meaning of Erskine’s running up and down the stairs all day: “Or perhaps Erskine, finding the first floor trying, is obliged to run...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 513–519.
Published: 01 September 2013
... all the way back to “a 35,000-year-old flute
found in a cave in southern Germany” (56), and then on to the evidence
of Neolithic flutes in China’s Henan Province, the tradition of erotic flute
music in ancient Greece, Rousseau’s preference for the flute’s “simplicity
and vigor” (57...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 401–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
... characteristics”
(111). Avoiding the simplicity of the melting-pot metaphor, Sollors fur-
ther explores the way that all of his case studies negotiate the connection
of two or more worlds: like Toomer’s Cane, Roth’s Call It Sleep connects
these worlds “in such a way that there was always ‘a world somewhere...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 174–180.
Published: 01 March 2013
... pe-
riod to comment on post-civil rights concerns: the simplicity of
Jim Crow thinking is simultaneously absurd and useful. (155)
Here is where I find the application of Norman’s theory a bit puzzling.
It sounds as if the neo-segregation narrative of necessity self-consciously...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 421–441.
Published: 01 December 2007
...—except in view of the perhaps unreasonable privilege
accorded to Eliot as commentator on his own work—to point out the
tendentiousness of this claim, considering the enormous critical energy
that has since been expended on unpacking the alleged simplicity of the
poem’s form. The complex...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 474–481.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., the task of literary
fiction in the modern age was simple (a simplicity that, as we will see,
Howells’s own fiction recognized as only apparent): to multiply lines of
empathic understanding across fissures that divided American society by
region, gender, ethnicity, and especially...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 255–263.
Published: 01 June 2011
...:
“Because of the variety of its formations, the reach of its referentiality, the
simplicity of its iterability, the sophistication of its manipulability—writ-
ing is the primary technology in the formation of an identity.”1 Writing,
unlike other institutions like building or making textiles, does...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., dismissive language in order to maintain a facade that Frederic continually reads at face value. Alexander Hollenberg’s insightful analysis of Catherine’s “thinness” of character as “recalcitrant simplicity” suggests that A Farewell to Arms revises the association between a character’s straightforward...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 September 2010
...) focuses such formal scrutiny even more tightly
on the ballad, a poetic mode important to this volume not for its simplic-
ity and directness but for its complexity—its implication in and critique
of racism. As in “the sonnet-ballad” in Annie Allen, the ballad’s formal
implications are investigated...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 343–368.
Published: 01 December 2019
... photography and news-clippings alongside the personal accounts in her poetry to produce new affects, and it is these affects, no “truth” per se, that drive her writing: “On myriad levels, we are . . . going to fail, fail, fail, each other and ourselves. The simplicity of the language is never to suggest truth...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of
classification” exists “to prevent us from being submerged by chaos” (91).
But even if such “simplicity” is required, she knows, it does not overcome
the problem of selection and exemplification: “the difficulty remains—one
has to choose.” While the epistemological problems raised by the museum
emerge...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 514–525.
Published: 01 December 2008
... essence not a descrip
tion of relative and ultimately changeable social position” (130). Nobody,
however, wants to be utterly destitute, not even people who invoke
traditions of “voluntary simplicity” (Lawrence Buell) or who sometimes
treat poverty as a desirable identity (Hardt and Negri...
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