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Unbinding the Subject: James Baldwin on the Evil That Is in the World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 March 2024
....” Such transformation comes about when the subject yields to the forces of sex and finitude. These forces—which Baldwin also calls “corruption”—have two functions. First, the subject’s unbinding, through corruption, enables the emergence of what Baldwin calls “the self.” Only with such emergence can we break from...
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White-Collar Masochism: Grove Press and the Death of the Managerial Subject
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and antihumanism, its depictions of objectified, fragmented, or otherwise compromised selves dramatizing both the terror and the allure of erotic nonsovereignty. More often than not, though, it was the workaday life of the managerial subject that returned in this erotic literature, albeit in refracted forms. Many...
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E. M. Forster’s Reconfigured Gaze and the Creation of a Homoerotic Subjectivity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 268–292.
Published: 01 June 2001
...A. A. Markley Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 hi
E. M. Forster’s Reconfigured Gaze
and the Creation
of a Homoerotic Subjectivity
A . A . Markley
Would you care to read my novel? .. .To you it will reveal a new
and painful world, into which you will hardly...
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Across the Widest Gulf: Nonhuman Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Flush
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 348–361.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Craig Smith Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 m
Across the Widest Gulf:
Nonhuman Subjectivity
in Virginia Woolf’s Flush
Craig Smith
I n 1933 Virginia W oolf published Flush: A Biography, an experim ent in
genre that purports to tell the life story o f Elizabeth...
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Revising Lyric Subjectivity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 324–331.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of scholarship that does for literary criticism
what Pound sought to do for poetry in his day: Make it new.
Revising Lyric Subjectivity
Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry,
and Contemporary Discourse
by Linda A. Kinnahan
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 277 pages
Lynn...
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From Cities of Things to Cities of Signs: Urban Spaces and Urban Subjects in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 413–442.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Paula E. Geyh Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 From. Cities of Things to Cities of Signs:
Urban Spaces and Urban Subjects
in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer
Paula E. Geyh
However the city may really be, beneath this thick coating of
signs...
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Desire, Agency, and Black American Subjectivity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
...John C. Charles Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual , by Reid-Pharr Robert , New York : New York University Press , 2007 . 208 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Review
Desire, Agency, and Black American Subjectivity
Once You Go...
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Stream and Destination: Husserl, Subjectivity, and Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 309–342.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Rebecca Rauve Davis © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Stream and Destination: Husserl, Subjectivity, and Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Stream and Destination: Husserl, Subjectivity,
and Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Rebecca Rauve Davis
About fifty years ago, Shiv Kumar...
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“Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 465–493.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Maren Linett © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 “Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge,and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen
“Seeing, seeing, seeing”: Deafness, Knowledge,
and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen
Maren Linett
In What is Posthumanism?, Cary Wolfe enlists Temple...
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Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism , by Caroline Hovanec
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2020
... to ecology’s own evolution as a science devoted to the management of nature but increasingly attuned to the hubris of that endeavor. Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism , by Hovanec Caroline . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 225 pages. Copyright © 2020...
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Nella Larsen’s Quicksand , Recalcitrant Subjects, and Wrong Feeling
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 359–384.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and inexplicable choices, critics tend to blame either Helga’s psyche or her environment. This essay offers an alternative approach, one that troubles the sharp distinctions between interior and exterior on which these readings implicitly rely by arguing that Helga and recalcitrant subjects like her exhibit “wrong...
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Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 293–316.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the changing practices of Japanese incarceration as different forms of racial subjection linked to the (re)formation of racial subjectivity. Hence, Citizen ’s seemingly progressive narrative trajectory belies an ambivalent development in which the contradiction of racialized citizenship gets remediated...
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Passionate Debates on “Odious Subjects”: Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 131–167.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Brenda S. Helt Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny
Passionate Debates on “Odious Subjects”:
Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories
of Androgyny and Sexual Identity
Brenda S. Helt
Contemporary scholarly...
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The Order of a Smashed Window-Pane: Novel Elegy in Woolf’s The Waves
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Erin Kay Penner In The Wave s, the 1931 novel she called a “playpoem,” Virginia Woolf enacts a drama of modern elegy, using multiple elegists and elegiac subjects to challenge the terms by which speakers and subjects worthy of poetic mourning are defined. In doing so, Woolf frees the genre from...
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Metalepsis and the Author Figure in Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... postmodern relationship between the author and his or her characters. Such a newly envisioned dynamic has been understood as fiction’s response to the theoretical debate about the so-called death of the author and, more broadly, to the posthumanist discourse on the dissolution of the liberal-humanist subject...
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Robert Lowell, the New Critics, and the “Unforgivable Landscape” of Liberalism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to those of his New Critical mentors, such as John Crowe Ransom, for whom the individual of the liberal political order is entwined with the history of Puritan iconoclasm and Romantic views of the poetic subject. It argues that Ransom’s critique parallels those of later critics, such as Marjorie Perloff...
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Morbid Vitalism: Death, Decadence, and Spinozism in Barnes’s Nightwood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... vitalist philosophy, Barnes produces a “morbid vitalism,” exemplified by Dr. Matthew O’Connor, by which life and death are conceived as variant expressions of a single force, and the subject is modeled as an assemblage of affects, impersonal but inherently social, that can be understood primarily through...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of representation by which the state monitors and assesses, through a rhetoric of uplifted subjectivity, the behaviors of the women who depend on state relief programs. In The Girl , homeless women’s discovery of forms of being within precarious living conditions constitutes an ontological repossession through...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Taylor Johnston-Levy This article explores how antiracism cultivates happiness among white subjects and how that emotion alienates people of color. It argues that a cohort of twentieth-century African American writers critiqued this happy antiracism in their fiction, examining Richard Wright’s...
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Historical Violence and Modernist Forms in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of Wicomb’s narrative experiment. That experiment aims at recovering the residues of female subjectivity repressed by the antiapartheid struggle, while also refusing to reincorporate women as “subjects” of homogeneous history. By explicitly naming and engaging the experiments of Joseph Conrad and James Joyce...
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