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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of lyric voice deliberately exclude such writing. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 feminism lyric theory modernism postcolonialism sound studies Most of the time, we think of the radio feature as a vehicle for news and information. Recently, however...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 606–639.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the cultural elite
capturing sentence sounds—literacy “enhanced” (9) the spoken by allow-
ing it to be ordered, studied, objectified, and developed in complexity.
When critics use the term “orality,” they mean something like what Ong
describes. Jacques Roubaud’s recent “Prelude: Poetry and Orality...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
... within literary archives, it fails to situate this project within the critical traditions of media thinking. In recent years, many scholars have imagined how media, including sound, have shaped literary studies—and specifically studies of the past century’s avant-garde movements. The lack of reliance...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 232–254.
Published: 01 June 2009
...
pleasure” were part of a trend in the aesthetics of the day, applied to music
in Edmund Gurney’s The Power of Sound, to the visual arts in Adolf von
Hildebrand’s The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture, and especially
to film in Hugo Münsterberg’s The Photoplay: A Psychological Study. In
fact...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 361–384.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and a textual effect, illuminates poetic histories that transgress the bounds of received aesthetic-political narratives. © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 ballad lyric voice media poetics sound The study of postwar poetry has arrived at a crisis of categorization. Much of this recent debate about...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 463–484.
Published: 01 December 2020
... : George Allen . Carpenter Edward . 1914 . Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution . London : George Allen . Carrà Carlo . 2009 . “ The Painting of Sounds, Noises, and Smells .” In Futurist Manifestoes , edited by Apollonio Umbro and translated...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 232–259.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Derek Furr 2013 Derek Furr
Re-Sounding Folk Voice, Remaking the Ballad:
Alan Lomax, Margaret Walker,
and the New Criticism
Derek Furr
From the British Romantic period through the first decades of the
twentieth century, the literary ballad was a commonly practiced form,
some...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 127–148.
Published: 01 June 2024
... registering of what is audible, but also requires attending to “the profound silence of the initiated,” out of which such sound emerges. In studying Black voodoo culture, for example, just listening to “drum beating and dancing” without also listening to “the profound silence of the initiated” is no different...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 111–118.
Published: 01 March 2014
... “keen intellect,” but its plumage is spectacularly
beautiful.
Long ago, Helen Vendler insisted on the note of austerity rather than
of gaudiness and profusion as sounding Stevens at his truest, and I’m not
trying belatedly to reverse her judgement. For the fact is that gaudiness...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 392–401.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and Joyce revolve around the ethical relations of individual subjectivity and shared belonging. Calling Woolf “a perfect case study for the modernist tendency to aestheticize real-world sound” (69), Frattarola contends that the author’s frequent use of onomatopoeia functions like a phonograph, as a device...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 369–392.
Published: 01 December 2019
...–33, 49–77; Kristeva 1980) . Heather McHugh’s work is, however, particularly notable for foregrounding a poetics of accidental encounter and elaboration. As puns are made possible by adventitious homonyms, which emerge from unrelated etymological developments, so in any poem sound values and writerly...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 443–473.
Published: 01 December 2006
... cited
Adorno, Theodor. “Aldous Huxley and Utopia.” Prisms. Tr. Samuel Weber and
Shierry Weber. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967. 97—117.
Altman, Rick. Introduction. Cinema/Sound. Spec, issue of Yale Cinema Studies
60 (1980): 3-15.
Sound Theory/Sound Practice. London: Routledge, 1992...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 504–512.
Published: 01 September 2013
... “as a pathological presence
rather than as a portal to imaginative realms” (14).
Whereas Graham notes a trend in contemporary theory toward visu-
ality, he aims to recover the study of sound from its present “second-class
status,” and he does so through recourse to a musicological framework.
Graham cites...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 345–351.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Literature . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Kermode Frank . 2000 . The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Sweeney Carole . 2020 . Vagabond Fictions: Gender and Experiment in British Women’s Fiction, 1945–1970 . Edinburgh...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 393–410.
Published: 01 December 2019
... about the challenges of existing outside the norms of society, as well as the importance of historical memory. At the same time, she also exploits rhyme for its dissociative potential. If the repetition of sound can draw connections between words, that is, it can also highlight the semantic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in the role of griots. … All these poems issued from the idea that the blues singer or jazz saxophone player is … the contemporary griot—a role that the poets, of course, already accepted for themselves” (9). While the role of the griot is often noted in studies of Black Arts poetry, no book has concentrated...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and Wittgenstein
tainty. One reason for doing this is to make a case for the importance of
thorough applications of Wittgenstein in literary studies, where references
to his philosophy, even in the work of astute critics, are often cursory and
misleading. Take, for example, Angus Fletcher’s claim...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 451–474.
Published: 01 December 2017
... that will live in world history” into “a date that will live in infamy”—but there are also second thoughts and subtler revisions that speak in his final message to the queer responsibility of sounding speechless. Where, in his first draft, Roosevelt had referred to the nation being “simultaneously...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 429–447.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of force and as a method of disciplining and controlling violence in order to concentrate its effects. (2002, 1) If a victim’s silence or nonverbal sounds might thus figure the triumph of violence, according to the emancipatory model, in light of the disciplinary model silence can instead manifest...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.
Published: 01 December 2009
... studying
English dialects. “Not a very sociable being” (Wainger 560), Sweet could
distinguish and enunciate seventy-two vowel sounds (570) and sometimes
whipped out a notebook at social gatherings to write down what people
were saying (558). Highly respected in Germany, Sweet never received...
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