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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 306–329.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Peggy Samuels Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 w
Verse as Deep Surface:
Elizabeth Bishop’s New Poetics, 1938—39
Peggy Samuels
I n the years that I have been reading Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and the
scholarship that has grown up around it, two remarks stand out as almost...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 March 2017
... oscillation between surface and depth glass affords as both medium and metaphor is particularly central to Woolf’s conceptualization of memory. While Woolf may have shared her contemporaries’ anti-Victorian fascination with “pure” surfaces (embodied architecturally in glass) and the solitary insight...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
... simplicity surface In “Scorpion” (1972), by the poet and novelist Stevie Smith (1902–71), the speaker fastidiously curates the flatness and emptiness of the heavenly space to which she would like God to call her: I should like my soul to be required of me, so as To waft over grass till it comes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 387–412.
Published: 01 December 2018
... dismissed as mere surface. Yet Merrill, the article contends, indulges in what he calls the Ouija’s “backstage gossip” both to establish a queer relationship to poetic tradition and to confront the pervasive menace of the Cold War discourse of the Lavender Scare, which haunts the trilogy’s 1950s origins...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 427–450.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the composition of verse and the fabric of national narratives. Whereas Pound detects the rhythmic coherence of a robust economy beneath the surface differences of documented history, Moore’s attention to the syllabic material of the prose she read and the stanzas she composed trained her attention...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 709–719.
Published: 01 December 2012
...-Century Literature 58.4 Winter 2012 709
Phoebe Putnam
Slowly but surely, flat is falling flat. Abstraction’s legacy of flat surfaces,
here implied by Schjeldahl as having been buffed to a perniciously “fric-
tionless” sheen by the late twentieth century, is being read as a legacy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 148–179.
Published: 01 June 2011
...
of madness. I end with a brief analysis of the two passages from Mary’s
safari diary in which Hemingway discusses his femininity, both to com-
plicate critics’ focus on negative tropes of gender variation and to outline
how the reading of gender might resist antinomies of literalism and irony,
surface...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 305–335.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
genre like modernist poetry. As a result, the intensity and complex nature
of Crane’s intersubjective intimacy has itself gone unrecognized.
Deep surfaces: skin, subjectivity, and “handling”
As I have suggested, Winnicott understands the “holding phase” as the
vital stage of the infant’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 385–413.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and final
tercets. Subordinate clauses (“Which is,” “That is”) and embedded phrases
scatter the focus of the poem’s initial form, dissipating the parallelism
with which it begins. In this sense, the enjambment punctures the surface
of “The Snow Man” and lets a bit of chaos into Stevens’s sentence...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 111–144.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of the impressionists; they called him rather
their “father.” Clement Greenberg influentially claimed that Manet’s
modernism lay in his rejection of the illusion of depth:
Manet’s paintings became the first Modernist ones by virtue of
the frankness with which they declared the surfaces on which...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 109–138.
Published: 01 June 2021
... “hovering just beyond our touch and just beyond our vision,” or what its relation might be to that “someone from the third world” DeLillo imagines in a supermarket. Instead, DeLillo criticism often attends to the surfaces of the quotidian, stressing his texts’ depictions of consumer culture, mediation...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): vi–vii.
Published: 01 June 2006
... demonstrates how it
instances a flatness that will eventuate in postmodernity’s notorious
emphasis on two-dimensional surfaces. Deploying the work of Mi
chael Fried and other art historians, the author incisively teases out
the painting’s central ambiguity, which in turn shapes Eliot’s poem:
the flat...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 323–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... if he were prepared we would have no means of verifying it, which would be merely another fiction” (87). The dynamic account of style in the dissertation thus challenges both the idea that a singular authority stands behind a work and the idea of the surface/depth approach more generally. 30...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2009
... shore,
rippling suddenly again with the illusion,
and carried, twirling, shiny again and fat,
towards the quick throes of another tentative
conclusion, bobbing, circling in little suctions their stiff
presence
on the surface compels. Nothing is virtual...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 59–87.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in which they themselves
work as confession. Mirrors and other reflective surfaces (windows, glass
bowls, portraits) are fundamental to this enquiry, either covertly—as in
the case of “An Obsessive Combination,” where mirroring processes are
“structuralized, internalized” (Hutcheon, Narcissistic 7...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 437–460.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the psyche’s projection of “the body-schema” onto its surface. As Grosz suggests, the concept of the “lived body” is “prevalent in psychology, especially psychoanalysis and phenomenology” and “refers largely to the lived experience of the body, the body’s internal and psychic inscription.” In troubling...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 582–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Chelle, Ralph’s
French counterpart, refers to the American nouveau riche as nomads
“who [have] no homes, who [are] born and [die] in hotels” (314).8
The novel thus associates the nouveau riche with mere surface ap-
pearances. Waiting for Raymond at the Nouveau Luxe, a popular desti-
nation...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 58–79.
Published: 01 March 2009
... It A: where the
hand is literally the instrument of inscription (the fingernails), the narra
tor repeatedly associates the movements of his body (his hand) with the
savage calligraphy cut into Pirn’s flesh (the body as inscriptive surface). He
relishes the nuances of his gouging and wounding...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... American Women Writers and Copyright
by Caren Irr
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. 220 pages
Mitchum Huehls
In their recent and already influential introduction to “surface reading”—
a counter-symptomatic practice that foregrounds “what insists on being
looked at rather than what we...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... experiment with and overturn such conventions. One of the great strengths of this valuable book is that it is able to account for such different styles and kinds of postwar poetry. Keniston is just as powerful a reader of Plath’s explosive poetry as she is of Howe’s complex surfaces. Ghostly Figures...
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