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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 109–138.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Federici, Maria Mies, and Nancy Fraser’s Marxist-feminist analyses of domestic labor. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 domestic labor ecology Underworld White Noise world-systems theory “Everyday things represent the most overlooked forms of knowledge,” claims Father Paulus, the Jesuit...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., which also operates in a dual manner, where the conversation about extinction reveals a fear for the future of the human but also acknowledges the inevitable disappearance of humanity. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 thing theory extinction posthumanism objects Bill Brown Jane Bennett...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 267–298.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Maurizia . 2014 . Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism . New York : Bloomsbury . Brown Bill . 2001 . “ Thing Theory .” Critical Inquiry 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 22 . Brown Bill . 2003 . A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature . Chicago...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Life of Things: Virginia Woolf and the Matter of Modernism .” Modernism/Modernity 6 , no. 2 : 1 – 28 . Brown Bill . 2001 . “ Thing Theory .” Critical Inquiry 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 22 . Brown Eric C. 2006 . Insect Poetics . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press...
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Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . Brown Bill . 2001 . “ Thing Theory .” Critical Inquiry 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 22 . Brown Bill . 2014 . “ [Concept/Object] [Text/Event] .” ELH 81 , no. 2 : 521 – 52 . Bürger Peter . 1984 . Theory of the Avant-Garde . Translated by Shaw Michael . Minneapolis...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
.... Another way to put this would be to say that examples form
narratives: they are not merely explanatory, or creatively paradigmatic in
Kuhn’s sense, but also carry a distinctiveness that propels narrative and
opens it to multivocality.1
Recent work in thing theory would appear to be indebted...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 538–543.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Stephen Schryer Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo , by Chodat Robert , Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2008 . 254 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Postskeptical Criticism
Worldly Acts and Sentient Things:
The Persistence...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 309–327.
Published: 01 December 2011
... neoliberalism, we can perhaps say something
useful about postmodernism as a theory of knowledge, as a theory of the
ontology of the work of art, and most obviously, as a theory of social or-
ganization. And finally, the useful thing I want to say is that the essence of
309Twentieth-Century Literature...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 394–405.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Ellen Spolsky Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel , by Zunshine Lisa , Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2006 . 198 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m
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How to Do Things with Novels
Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 98–104.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to the End of History
by Walter Benn Michaels
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 224 pages
Samuel Cohen
At least since the eighteenth century, when Vico asserted that we can best
know humanity by studying its products and things by studying their
origins, one potential way to study...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 212–217.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., to counter Hermogenes’s theory
that names have an arbitrary relationship to the person or thing that they
name, Cratylus advances precisely Stein’s claim: that a name “denotes
character and career,” that a name is determinant of action and has a
natural connection to what it names...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 315–320.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of saying that such and such a novel “thinks” about marriage, death, war, fear, art, and so on. However, this way of putting things is often misleading since what we are really talking about is not actual thinking but the representation of thoughts in the work. For Timothy Bewes, this everyday, barely...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 273–281.
Published: 01 June 2020
... these two stances is what defines Jones’s Christian modernism. In “Saying More and Making Other: Poetry as Sacrament,” Daniel Gustafsson directs our attention to Jones’s theory of sacramental art and the “thingness” of poetry. Jones was influenced by Maurice de la Taille’s claim that Jesus “placed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., Eve Sedgwick, Bruno Latour, Wai Chee Dimock, Cary Wolfe, Franco Moretti, Elisabeth Grosz, and Graham Harman have all observed over the past two decades, those critical moves left a lot of stuff out: ecology, things, affect, science, animals, bodies, technology, geology, and so on. Of course, one...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 June 2016
... timely and important intervention in this book 3 when he suggests that such a lack of contact arises due to differences concerning (1) the status of the event and (2) the politics of representation. Trauma theory emphasizes the event of trauma, as a thing that happens with symptomatic consequences...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 273–297.
Published: 01 September 2007
... attempts to theorize the con
temporary— most notably Georg Lukács’s The Theory of the Novel, which
puts forward an epochal notion o f “absolute sinfulness” as the defining
principle of the novel form. M y intention is to decant what is essential
to and credible in the postm odern...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 372–379.
Published: 01 December 2011
...
the knots, lost their status of illustrating something and became
the thing itself, the focus of interest and elaboration in itself, the
very way that theory should proceed, embodying something that
cannot be rendered in any other way. (123)
As it assumes the form of non-verbal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to culture at stake in it.
Evolutionary psychology, which uses principles of Darwinian evo-
lutionary theory to make and test predictions about human psychology,
has become astonishingly popular over the last twenty-five years, both
as a research program and as a pop culture phenomenon. Its...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 524–531.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that modernism and satire
are not incompatible, but . . . they are very nearly the same thing” (9).
Greenberg’s first chapter locates his treatment of satire, comedy, and
the grotesque within a necessarily abbreviated history of its definition and
use by critics such as George Meredith, Alvin Kernan...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 423–446.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... 23
March 2010.
Terada, Rei. Feeling in Theory: Emotion After the “Death of the Subject.”
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.
Thatcher, Margaret. “No Such Thing as Society.” Interview by Douglas Keay.
Woman’s Own 31 October (1987): Thatcher Archive, 1987.
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