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Film in Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 333–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Elizabeth Yukins In the posthumously published Three Days before the Shooting . . . (2010), Ralph Ellison’s protagonist spends years as a film actor and filmmaker, and cinematographic effects appear throughout the narrative. Sharply aware of what he called the “enormous myth-making potential...
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in Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 4–6 A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt from the printer’s setting copy shows Faulkner’s multiple attempts at the water tank metaphor, in which he switches between pen and typewriter until he crafts the “we” statement that defines the narrative voices
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A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt fro...
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in Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 4–6 A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt from the printer’s setting copy shows Faulkner’s multiple attempts at the water tank metaphor, in which he switches between pen and typewriter until he crafts the “we” statement that defines the narrative voices
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A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt fro...
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in Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 4–6 A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt from the printer’s setting copy shows Faulkner’s multiple attempts at the water tank metaphor, in which he switches between pen and typewriter until he crafts the “we” statement that defines the narrative voices
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in (Re)Embodying the Disembodied Voice of Lyric: The Radio Poems of Derek Walcott and Sylvia Plath
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1 Stanislaw Gliwa, frontispiece for Three Women , by Sylvia Plath (1968) . Linocut.
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(Re)Embodying the Disembodied Voice of Lyric: The Radio Poems of Derek Walcott and Sylvia Plath
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Figure 1 Stanislaw Gliwa, frontispiece for Three Women , by Sylvia Plath (1968) . Linocut. ...
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True Lies: Virginia Woolf, Espionage, and Feminist Agency
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and several companions disguised themselves as “Abyssinians” and successfully gained access to the flagship of the British navy, to her publication of Three Guineas (1938), in which she advocates for the creation of an anonymous “Society of Outsiders,” Woolf’s antiauthoritarian politics consistently draw upon...
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Postsocialist Fiction and Frameworks: Miroslav Penkov, Lara Vapnyar, and Aleksandar Hemon
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Cold War discourses and highlight real or symbolic junctions between postsocialist European and US spaces, thus constituting new publics and developing new frames of interpretation. The three authors relate the socialist past and its immediate aftermath to the United States: Penkov addresses...
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Doris Lessing, Antipsychiatry, and Bodies that Matter
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 437–460.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Kerry Myler In The Golden Notebook (1962), The Four-Gated City (1969), and Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), Doris Lessing examines the inadequacies of traditional models of madness and considers in their stead an antipsychiatric model championed by R. D. Laing. While ostensibly the three...
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Representing the Poor: Interwar Documentary Film, Mass Observation, and Victor Gollancz Ltd.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... documentary film, Mass Observation, and the publications of Victor Gollancz Ltd., the article considers how, while marking a kind of formal shift away from a late Victorian discourse of poverty, this development maintains that earlier discourse’s disciplinary agenda. In examining three case studies—John...
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Trans Bodies and Embodiments in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Chung-Hao Ku This article studies how three kinds of trans embodiment—trans-speciation, sartorial metamorphosis, and nonmedical gender transition—in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) unsettle the anthropocentric idea of nature, the genital view of sex, gender, and sexuality...
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Playing the Dozens and Consuming the Cadillac: Ralph Ellison and Civil Rights Politics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Nathaniel Mills This article challenges long-standing narratives of Ralph Ellison’s response to civil rights-era struggles as one of quietism, conservatism, or apolitical aestheticism. Focusing on a key episode early in Ellison’s Three Days before the Shooting …, in which a jazz musician burns his...
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When Noir Meets Nonfiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 484–510.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Christopher P. Wilson This essay examines three twentieth-century practitioners of the Los Angeles variant of Noir nonfiction: the radical historian and architectural critic Mike Davis; the fiction writer, screenwriter, and journalist Joan Didion; and the novelist, reporter, and memoirist John...
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James Weldon Johnson’s Feminization of Biraciality
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
... three facets of the lives of many biracial men: (1) hypervisibility (in a world obsessed with skin color), (2) sexuality (when identification is distorted), and (3) self-determination (where a racial hierarchy appears to eliminate agency). In its conclusion, the article suggests that the prevailing...
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Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
... individual—analogical concepts reflecting a paleontological manifestation of a wider interest in human decadence. This essay analyzes how these concepts are explored in three areas: popular adventure fiction, social reform novels by Marie Stopes and H. G. Wells, and writings by paleontologists. Across...
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Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Figures 4–6 A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt from the printer’s setting copy shows Faulkner’s multiple attempts at the water tank metaphor, in which he switches between pen and typewriter until he crafts the “we” statement that defines the narrative voices...
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Ezra Pound’s Egypt and the Origin of the Cantos
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2002
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sessed all the advantages that Pound associated with China—a rich
sculptural tradition, an ideogramic language, a philosopher-poet whose
maxims provided a basis for practical morality—and throughout the early
versions of the first three cantos, the ancient realm is accorded the same...
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The Apocalyptic Ibsen: When We Dead Awaken
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 396–404.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Elinor Fuchs Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 The Apocalyptic Ibsen:
When We Dead Awaken
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And four great beasts came up from the sea The second, like
a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its...
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Huxley’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 443–473.
Published: 01 December 2006
... a special status insofar as
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they are artistic productions: Mond describes them as “works of art out of
practically nothing but pure sensation” (221). In a central scene,John the
Savage, newly exported from the Malpais Indian Reservation, attends a
feely called Three Weeks...
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Symptom and Sign: Janet, Freud, Eliot, and the Literary Mandate of Laughter
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2010
... University in
Worchester, Massachusetts, and these lectures were also published the
following year, both in English and in German (“Five Lectures Freud’s
first three lectures, naturally, were devoted to the disorder that had created
psychoanalysis and contributed to Freud’s growing fame...
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