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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 (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 (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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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... by Attell Kevin . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Alt Christina . 2010 . Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Attridge Derek . 2004 . The Singularity of Literature . London : Routledge . Bennett Jane . 2010...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... orientation from modernism’s reaction to modernity. 1 A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. — Gertrude Stein (1947) failure Gertrude Stein modernism self-help Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 Throughout “An Instant Answer,” Stein plays on gender...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the workings of a system where local knowledge is displaced by imperialist knowledge production. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 decolonization nonmedical gender transition sartorial metamorphosis trans embodiment transformation trans-speciation Works Cited Aizura Aren Z. Cotten...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., 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 labor under, and how far we have yet to go...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 330–351.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Hofstra University 2015 D. H. Lawrence Virginia Woolf modernism anthropomorphism animals “What am I to do with these, Mr. Bonamy?” She held out a pair of Jacob’s old shoes. (187) 1 On the problem of literary theory versus literary ethics, see Nussbaum 2005...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and perspective, enabling them to say, along with Beckett’s ravaged and disintegrating figures, “What matter who’s speaking” ( Beckett 1967 , 85). The midcentury middle class often presented itself as classless and universal by promoting doctrines of the human and the individual but, through Grove, it succeeded...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... here figured as Christlike sacrifices on behalf of the sort of future redemption that, at his poem’s end, Lowell’s emphatic “unforgivable” disallows. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 confessional poetry individualism poetry puritanism “Ought I to regret my seedtime?” asks...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... : Indiana University Press . Butler Judith . 2004 . Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence . London : Verso . Butler Judith . 2010 . Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London : Verso . Campbell James . 1999 . “ Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 387–412.
Published: 01 December 2018
... subjectivity—a way of telling one’s own scandalous story through someone else’s words, even words intended as hostile, discovering poetic and sexual pleasures where others see only anxiety and dread. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 The Changing Light at Sandover Cold War sexuality queer...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
... today. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Severo Sarduy Orientalism philosophy postmodernism Buddhist studies is a somewhat recent invention. Indeed, as some scholars of religion point out today, the very idea that there exists a thing called “Buddhism,” a category that can effectively...
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