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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 85–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., it labored those regimes into existence” (9). Craft signifies, in other words, a potential mode of resistance that turns and is turned in various directions, over time. In its most recent turning, the university has enshrined it as part of “a falsely nostalgic lexicon evocative of work practices...
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 5 “St. Cecilia” (ca. 1900) by Edward Burne-Jones. Princeton University Art Museum. © 2012 Bruce M. White.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
... universalism, based on patterns of likeness and relationality. Moreover, by appreciating the ways this discourse fails—as evidenced in the many textual contradictions and inconsistencies of Dust Tracks —we gain a fuller sense of a process in which universalist ideals bear the marks of Hurston’s personal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Stephen D. Thompson Approaching T. S. Eliot’s oeuvre as a coherent whole, this essay argues that his early work registers a set of philosophical difficulties inherited from the epistemological presumptions of the modern university that he gradually reformulates and resists over the course of his...
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in Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 7 Jessie Dismorr, “The Engine” (1915). Courtesy of the Special Collections Research Library, University of Chicago Library.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 167–190.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Greg Chase Where Addie Bundren’s bitter statement in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying that “words are no good” has often been read as concerning the universal shortcomings of language, this article turns to the philosophy of Faulkner’s contemporary Ludwig Wittgenstein for a more context-specific...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Manya Lempert Although critics have tended to answer the question “Does Woolf write tragedies?” in the negative, Woolf rekindles a Greek perspective in which the universe is devoid of salvation and poetic justice. Woolf follows Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides—a literary, not a philosophical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
...John Engle Mostly dismissed as a trivial entertainment, Frederick Kohner’s Gidget: The Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957) is in fact a telling aesthetic and cultural document. University of Vienna PhD, Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, and successful Hollywood screenwriter Kohner empathetically...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 241–243.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Barbara Foley The winner of this year’s prize is Conrad Steel’s “Standard Forms: Modernism, Market Research, and ‘Howl.’” The judge is Barbara Foley, Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Foley’s chief scholarly and political interests are in the fields of African...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., finding the British Idealists’ contention that time is unreal an especially valuable insight for her literary agenda. For many of the idealists, time is unreal in the sense that multiple temporal series coexist within the universe or atemporal “Absolute.” This idea, which was debated in the journal Mind...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Quartets , The Family Reunion , and other works. This article surveys the contents of the long-awaited Eliot letters archived at Princeton University, focusing on Hale’s role in the poet’s personal and imaginative life. In addition to clarifying long-standing questions about their relationship, from...
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in May Howard Jackson and the Development of Jean Toomer’s Multiracial Modernism
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1 May Howard Jackson, Jean Toomer (1921). Photograph by Laura Lorhan. Courtesy of Virginia State University Special Collections and Archives.
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 1 Notebook sketch for a seminar with Bertrand Russell, by T. S. Eliot (1914) . © Estate of T. S. Eliot. Courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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in (Re)Embodying the Disembodied Voice of Lyric: The Radio Poems of Derek Walcott and Sylvia Plath
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2 Sylvia Plath, “Triple-Face Portrait” (1951). Tempura on canvas. Courtesy of Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. © 2022 Estate of Sylyia Plath.
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in Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2: A diagrammatic demonstration of the analogy between spiny skin on an elderly individual animal and in an “elderly” species ( Beecher 1898 : 355). Reproduced courtesy of the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 293–328.
Published: 01 September 2023
... ]” and “mediation” ( EPR 220: §182a), and “the world of appearance of the ethical [ Sittlichen ]” (219: §181). In this light, the “political ideas” ( OCPW 143) Joyce invokes should be conceived in terms neither of epistemological accuracy nor of rational universals based on claims about the nature...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... life. In experimenting with a “nonanthropocentric anthropomorphism,” it is claimed that modernist ethics is founded on the attempt to respond to the demands, in both content and form, of “unrecognizable” creatures. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 This content is made freely available...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... . New York : Grove . Bederman Gail . 1996 . Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Berger John . 1993 . The Success and Failure of Picasso . New York : Vintage . Biers...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
... narratives of progress, seeking a new home elsewhere. Like intersex nonhuman species (particularly the snail and the cereus), some trans embodiments also interrogate the enterprise of sex/gender dimorphism. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 [email protected] decolonization nonmedical gender...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
... what one produces with others, and is this not the lesson the professions return to the university to learn again and again?” 36 Weheliye (2014 : 7) writes, “I want to underscore just how comprehensively the coloniality of Man suffuses the disciplinary and conceptual formations of knowledge we...
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