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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 559–566.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Donald A. Daiker Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story , by Lamb Robert Paul , Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2010 . 273 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
How a Hemingway Story Works
Art Matters...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 100–114.
Published: 01 March 2000
...John H. Timmerman Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Tim O’Brien and the Art of the True
War Story: “Night March” and
“Speaking of Courage”
John H. Timmerman
he Vietnam war story is not simply about the rise and fall of nations
(South Vietnam, North...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 239–263.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Robin Blyn Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 w
The Ethnographer’s Story:
Mama Day and the Specter
of Relativism
Robin Blyn
Ethnographic writings can be properly called fictions in the
sense o f “something made or fashioned.” . . . B ut it is important...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 260–268.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Christopher J. Knight Concerning E. M. Forster , by Kermode Frank , New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2009 . 180 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Christopher J. Knight
Two Sides to Every Story
Concerning E. M. Forster
by Frank Kermode
New York...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Kaelie Giffel Bringing together Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story and Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” this essay argues that Benjamin’s concept of “constellating” events that are noncausally yet historically related to each other is uniquely able to help us grasp the specificity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 92–113.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Howard L. Hannum Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 “Scared sick looking at it” :
A Reading of Nick Adams
in the Published Stories
Howard L. Hannum
J^ T ick Adams, like Huck Finn, Jay Gatsby, or any other major charac
ter in American literature, is entitled to a life...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 363–371.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to be clear-eyed about what we can and should do. This is a way of introducing two new books working in these areas: Jon Day’s Novel Sensations: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia (2020) and Paul B. Armstrong’s Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative (2020). Each of these books...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 444–466.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Andrew S. Teverson Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 »II
Fairy Tale Politics:
Free Speech and Multiculturalism
in Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Andrew S. Teverson
Jacobites must speak in children’s rhymes,
As preachers do in Parables, sometimes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Patricia P. Chu Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech , by Duncan Patti , Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2004 . 274 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Untold Stories, Old and New
Tell This Silence: Asian American Women...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 298–327.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Leena Kore Schröder Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI
Tales of Abjection and Miscegenation:
Virginia Woolf s and Leonard Woolf s
“Jewish” Stories
Leena Kore Schröder
T h e r e can be no straightforward account of attitudes toward Jewishness
in the work of Virginia...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 575–581.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Deborah Nelson Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories , by Cassuto Leonard , Columbia University Press , 2009 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History
of American Crime Stories...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Anna Katsnelson This article argues that there are two major strains of transnationalism in works by Russian-speaking North American writers David Bezmozgis, Ellen Litman, and Gary Shteyngart. Bezmozgis and Litman focus on localism, and their short story collections Natasha (2003) and The Last...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... story, part horror story, part detective story—is a riddle that the reader must solve, but that in doing so the reader becomes infected with the same fragmentary force that disembodies the protagonist. As such, the heuristic consequence of the novel is to instruct the reader on the influence of language...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 271–292.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Lola Boorman Critics have always struggled to situate the work of short story writer and translator Lydia Davis within wider trends in postwar and contemporary literature. Paying particular attention to a group of Davis’s “grammar stories,” this essay reads Davis’s fiction as Wittgensteinian...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Paul Stasi Ordinary Culture in ‘The Dead’” reads James Joyce’s short story through the lens of Raymond Williams’s essay “Culture Is Ordinary.” Each work represents the gap between education and social solidarity in narratives about the return of an educated protagonist to his place of origin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 2016
... unsanctioned by military authority. This reframing of A Farewell to Arms as Catherine’s war story rather than as her love story also reveals a Hemingway sensitive to how the trauma of World War I rewrote identity for women as well as men. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Ernest Hemingway World War...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 2024
... origin stories—like the Christian story of the fall—and as generative for her poetics, offering a model for a poetics of iterative and continual origination. Heather Cass White has suggested that the future of Moore criticism depends on recognizing how two schools—“the scientific Moore...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 121–144.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Adrian Wanner The city of Odessa has gained prominence in twentieth-century literature as a symbolic hub of sensuality, irreverent humor, and criminal ingenuity. While Odessa’s storied ethnic diversity is now largely reduced to a Russian/Ukrainian binary, the multicultural and Jewish Odessa lives...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... so, it also engages with a complex of intertexts ranging from the Qur’anic and biblical versions of the Yusuf/Joseph story to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness . This essay adds V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River to this mix by reading Gurnah’s historical attentiveness as an overwriting of Naipaul’s...
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