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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
... novels from obscuring to displaying signs of technological mediation, while the second half aligns this trend with an editorial process that foregrounded the role of the typewriter. Tracing these ideas to an analogous theory of the unconscious by psychologist William James, who gave currency...
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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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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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The Modernist Inkblot
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 299–328.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Kittler Friedrich . 1999 . Gramophone, Film, Typewriter . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Klein A. M. 1994 . Notebooks: Selections from the A. M. Klein Papers . Edited by Pollock Zailig Caplan Usher . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Krauss Rosalind E...
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An American Writer Born in Paris: Blaise Cendrars Reads Henry Miller Reading Blaise Cendrars
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 103–122.
Published: 01 March 2003
... removes the story from the
streets and hotel rooms to the author before his typewriter, to the ex
tent, even, of writing preceding event: the hero, no other in name than
the writer, seats himself every morning in front of his machine, well be
fore the day’s adventure has occurred, which...
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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
... proceed From my alphabetical fingers, ordering parts, Parts, bits, cogs, the shining multiples. ( TW 10) For the Secretary, here, gestation and writing (or typing) both involve a kind of automatic process that creates something new. But where the typewriter easily facilitates her creation of words...
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Cockroach Dreams: Oscar Zeta Acosta, Legal Services, and the Great Society Coalition
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 455–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
... reflects, “is the sleepy yet knowledgeable look she [his client]
gives to me when I’m on the phone, the way she notices my red $567
IBM typewriter on my mahogany desk” (29). As a member of one of the
minorities that makes up Oakland’s ghetto, Oscar is supposed to function
as a more effective...
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Literature in the Age of Visual Media
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 285–290.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and the choice of particular writing instruments,
including the peculiarities of handwriting, typewriting, and keyboarding,
physically register the conditions of mediality under which particular texts
have been written” (4). In this sense, writing and in particular the novel,
with its encyclopedic range...
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Auden at Work ed. by Bonnie Costello and Rachel Galvin
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 507–512.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to French poetry, or Hannah Sullivan’s linkage of Auden’s disdain for writing on a typewriter with a narrative of the poet’s ostensible ideological conservatism. Presenting an encouraging mix of senior scholars with newer critical voices that are helping chart the future of the field, Costello...
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I See France: Priorities in Nonfiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 12–31.
Published: 01 March 2003
... penchant for sarcasm and personal at
tack, for using shame as a pedagogical device:
I managed to mispronounce IBM and assign the wrong gender
to both the floor waxer and the typewriter. The teacher’s reac
tion led me to believe that these mistakes were capital crimes...
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A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill ed. by Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and risky sexual behavior were serious in the Key West period. The relationship with Jackson was also complicated by Merrill’s new lover, Peter Hooten. Using a running joke about his electric word processors, he writes to Hooten in April 1984: “I am JM’s new typewriter, and want to thank you for those...
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Ulysses and the Rhetoric of Cartography
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 164–192.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Dunne’s “clicks” on the typewriter (188).
The connective logic can be linguistic as well as thematic, as in the tran
sition from the “Barang!” of the “lacquey’s bell” in front of the auction
house to the “Bang” of the “lastlap bell” at the Trinity College track race
(195). Even...
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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
... disrupting the ceaseless flow of consumerist discourse, writing
“cusswords on typewriters between the stenographer’s fingers, mixfing]
up the pricetags in department stores” (353).Yet he has no alternative
method of self-creation. His sense of self seems to disintegrate amid...
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Elizabeth Bowen’s Things: Modernism and the Threat of Extinction in The Little Girls
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Virginia Woolf, “relishes the narrative business of the realist, insofar as it releases her from the stifling rose-house of inner life into the world of cars and cocktail-shakers, typewriters and telephones—in short into the modern world” (2003, 5). On the other hand, Heather Ingman argues...
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“My Trespass Vision”: Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality in Hart Crane’s Versions of “The Idiot”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Of course, Crane was by no means the only early twentieth-century author committed to extended revision. Hannah Sullivan argues that with the introduction of technological innovations like the typewriter, and with the increasing affordability of paper, it was in the modernist period that the concept...
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The Novel Enfleshed: Naked Lunch and the Literature of Materiality
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 199–223.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., paralleling the ways financial
transactions in the global market produce a global instantaneity. As a mid-
century instrument of recording, the typewriter evokes the mechanized
spaces of high Foridism, while, as a communication technology, it also
points forward towards the effacement of time...
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Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
... 452). And yet, in 1960,
Kerouac would reaffirm both the practice and principle of truthfulness, re
calling of The Subterraneans:
Not a word of this book was changed after I had finished writing it
in three sessions from dusk to dawn at the typewriter like a long let
ter...
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“Reading at It”: Gertrude Stein, Information Overload, and the Makings of Americanitis
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 126–156.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that individualism itself is a product, rather
than being innate. Often read as a defense of same-sex relationships,
which it most certainly is, this passage also expresses Stein’s ambivalence
about the standardization imposed by technology. The habitual clicking
of the typewriter suggests a complete...
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Against the Ontology of the Present: Paul Auster’s Cinematographic Fictions
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 273–297.
Published: 01 September 2007
... apartment after the boy saves his life. Both films— the real and
the fictional— include relatively conventional uses o f montage, in which
cinematographic shots o f the w riter banging away on a typewriter (Mar
tin Frost and Paul Benjamin respectively) are juxtaposed w ith actions
which may...
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