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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 86–104.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Julian Murphet Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Julian Murphet
Coetzee and Late Style: Exile within the Form
Julian Murphet
Let us trace a theme, but more than a theme, an enactment, of exile
as it has come to inform the recent work of J. M. Coetzee. Exile I mean...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 350–357.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and Wishart . Committed Styles is an impressively researched book that makes extensive use of little-known texts, including archival material, and grounds its broader analyses in a close engagement with specific works. This includes a productive attention to language. Kohlmann’s reading of Empson...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... on to the wounded body of the text itself. 6 Malina was originally intended to be one of a series of novels through which Bachmann wanted to explore one particular theme, namely, the “Todesarten,” which Philip Boehm has translated as “Death Styles” or “Ways of Dying,” that are inflicted on us through...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 323–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... writings and in the development of what I term a poetics of embeddedness. Coetzee’s early work as a forerunner in the digital humanities, and his writings on form, style, and linguistic skepticism, also shed light on contemporary debates about postcritique and the possibility of politically committed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in publishing as a novelist and in sustained composition. Through paying close attention to Ellison’s compositional style in Invisible Man , in addition to his work in the essay form, this account shows that despite Ellison’s desire to publish the novel, his approach to novel-writing indicates his investment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... publications, white-collar masochists styled themselves as revolutionary suicides or self-destructive saboteurs squandering the human capital of the organizations in which they worked. Nevertheless, this imaginative solution failed to overcome the press’s own class contradictions, which came to a head during...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., the medicalized body becomes the metaphorical locus of a profound epistemological unease, and the interventionist apparatuses of medicine and of cinema become folded into a more general problematic of style. Whereas Eliot’s poem repeatedly breaks the frame of classical rhyme, meter, and structure in order...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2020
...James Brophy The war poet Keith Douglas wrote in 1943 that he sought a “balanced style” where “cynic and lyric” might meet. In focusing on a set of four poems that he had written in May and June of that year—“Vergissmeinnicht,” “Aristocrats,” “How to Kill,” and “Enfidaville”—I propose...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... In representing the modern plantation environment, the essay argues, Walrond’s fragmented, experimental style manifests a multivocal, multiperspectival cross-culturality that the plantation unintentionally produces and then cannot adequately contain. James’s insights corresponded with those of the Cuban...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Irena Yamboliev This essay reveals the unexpected yet profound ways stained glass contributes to the representational logic of Lawrence’s fiction, especially his early story “A Fragment of Stained Glass” (1908) and The Rainbow (1915). Lawrence develops a prose style that mimics stained glass’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 410–417.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Paul Stasi Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation , by Walkowitz Rebecca , New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . 288 pages. A Test Case for Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation
by Rebecca Walkowitz...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 220–227.
Published: 01 June 2017
... cosmopolitanism from this period, such as Jessica Berman’s Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community (2001), Rebecca Walkowitz’s Cosmopolitanism Style: Modernism beyond the Nation (2006), and Mariano Siskind’s Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 181–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
... literature to provide the voice for
our times. Modernism’s self-conscious style and outsider sensibility, he
argues, is eminently suited to the cosmopolitan project, and it is as mod-
ernists that Spencer analyses the authors of his study. These include not
only Coetzee and Mo but also Salman Rushdie...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 720–727.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., familiar to all readers of Joyce, is “the sheer plurality of styles in
Ulysses,” which suggests the inadequacy of any one style or combination
of styles to represent objectively the ordinary.
One question that inevitably arises from a reading of Joyce is the
reader’s role in the making of meaning...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... is characteristic of Butts’s formal innovation. Butts communes and engages with the landscape through careful detailing of its features, and depicts its qualities in her linguistic style. This can also be seen in her story “The Warning”: “There, at the pull of the moon, the tides draw out half a mile. Draw back...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 492–515.
Published: 01 December 2011
... did, of course, his late style being the ultimate demonstration
of what it means to press against the rules of syntactic extension and
elaboration while also committing to and developing that syntax as the
very embodiment of “the idea” being addressed and expressed.
Yet James certainly...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 167–191.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to imagine a work of literature that doesn’t depend on manners”
(Recitative 33), the question of manners bears also on style, which Stephen
Yenser rightly calls the “literary allotrope” of manners (58).
For Merrill, Wallace Stevens’s work exemplifies the “poem of man
ners” because of his...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 364–371.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of postmodernism as
equivalent to the self-referential, “high” experimental style epitomized by
white male writers such as Thomas Pynchon or John Barth, and pitted
against the naïvely realist aesthetic of “socially demarcated groups” (530).
Steiner argues that the experimental and more traditionally...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 414–421.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to Tom Cerasulo’s book Authors Out Here. In
this book Cerasulo makes the case both for the significance of F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s, Dorothy Parker’s, Budd Schulberg’s, and Nathanael West’s
contributions to Hollywood and for the film industry’s reshaping of these
writers’ prose styles...
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