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Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature 1945–1975 by Michael LeMahieu
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 128–136.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ali Chetwynd Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature 1945–1975 , by LeMahieu Michael , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 244 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Ali Chetwynd
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The Value of Poetry , by Eric Falci
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 233–240.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Gregory Leadbetter [email protected] The Value of Poetry , by Falci Eric . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 198 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 The history of literary criticism is deeply laden with the discussion of poetry, but homing...
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Ghosts in the Barn: Dead Labor and Capital Accumulation in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the value form and the products of labor under capitalism—what Karl Marx suggestively calls “all the magic and necromancy” shrouding capital accumulation. Capitalism inescapably conjures its own phantoms and so remains haunted by the spectral figures of “dead labor” occulted under the sign of value...
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“Solitary Bartlebies”: Kerouac’s On the Road and the Ideology of the Superhighway
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 170–196.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., however, challenges this conventional reading. Setting the text against the emerging superhighway ethic-which values the individuated automobile over established communities, conquest of nature over integration with nature, and productivity over all else-reveals a more nuanced and forceful critique...
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Toxic Waste and Unpaid Labor: Don DeLillo’s Everyday
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 109–138.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of the US cycle. To do so, it brings into dialogue critiques of everyday life; the Warwick Research Collective’s definition of “world-literature” as “the literary registration of . . . combined and uneven development”; Jason W. Moore’s world-ecological analysis with Marx’s theory of value; and Silvia...
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Marianne Moore’s Public Solitude
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
... a useful life is made possible by nourishing one’s own solitude and valuing the solitude of others. Ultimately, this essay argues that the idea of public solitude can help us understand Moore’s poetics, the strategies and structures that defined her engagement with poetry. Although consistently important...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Participatory Listenership, and Boasian Anthropology
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 127–148.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Junha Jung Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching Go d (1937) is known as a “speakerly” text. This essay argues that the novel is also a “listenerly” text—that, as in her work in general, in Their Eyes Hurston celebrates close listening as much as speaking—and that this valuing of listening...
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Writing Underground: Ralph Ellison and the Novel
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in something more ongoing. Tying Invisible Man ’s contentious ending to this conversation allows us to glimpse the shared, complex value of the anonymous narrator’s underground circumstances and Ellison’s creative process. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 composition Invisible Man novel...
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White-Collar Masochism: Grove Press and the Death of the Managerial Subject
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jordan S. Carroll This essay examines the US literary publisher Grove Press from 1951 to 1970. During this period, Grove promoted an aesthetic that Susan Sontag termed the “new sensibility,” one that valued impersonal sensations over personal expression. Grove thus became a key mediator between...
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Historical Violence and Modernist Forms in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., antihomogenizing historiography comes closer to what Wicomb values in Conrad and Joyce. Finally, the author shows how the novel offers a critique of the poststructuralist/postmodernist understanding of language as authorless and self-canceling, arguing that this view has, historically speaking, functioned...
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“Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways”: Curiosity in Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and addresses it directly in her French Ways and Their Meaning . Part of the agenda of that slim primer was to illustrate, on the basis of the French example, that (if properly handled) curiosity and reverence are not antagonistic but mutually animating cultural values. Achieving this ideal state, Wharton...
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Elegy under the Knife: Geoffrey Hill and the Ethics of Sacrifice
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... valued as gold—
Alas, they are accounted as earthen pots,
Work of a potter’s hands!
—Lamentations 4
A pronounced drift in recent studies of elegies written in English has
been from psychology to ethical philosophy, from attention to the psy
choanalytic drama...
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The Defense of Judgment by Michael Clune
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 205–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...” (170), which reduces a literary object’s value to confirming knowledge claims made by nonliterary, nonaesthetic sources. I’ll conclude on a more mundane pedagogical note that hopes also to speak to Clune’s larger project of aesthetic judgment’s rehabilitation. Nowadays my syllabi contain a section...
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Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human by Maren Tova Linett
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 105–112.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human wants us to choose both of them, but not necessarily Peter Singer’s version of animal rights. Singer is notorious for arguing that the lives of certain animals can have more value than certain humans with disabilities. Linett’s new book argues...
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The Gold Standard of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
... that the
overdetermination of racial values by the political economy of capitalism
presents a no-win situation. Even the New Negro’s revaluation of black
ness as a source of pride appears in Larsen’s work as a hopeless attempt
to defy the reification of blackness as a sign of working-class inferiority.
Larsen’s...
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Cather’s A Lost Lady and the Disenchantment of Art
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 182–211.
Published: 01 June 2007
... in modernity. Indeed,
the novel offers not only an allegory of innocence and experience in the
figure of Niel, or an allegory of social change in the decline of Marian
Forrester, but also an allegory of aesthetic value that mediates between
the two. For if Niel Herbert struggles to reconcile himself...
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Literary Study’s Debts to Feminism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 373–377.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of the poet.
Chapters explore the primary categories for thinking about the relation of
reading to fiction: readers, authors, plots, and values. Each chapter includes
a summary of basic issues in the field, a description of ways that feminist
Twentieth-Century Literature 51.3 Fall 2005 373...
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“Real Classical Money”: Naturalism and Mamet’s American Buffalo
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 330–346.
Published: 01 September 2006
... the issue of the value of the
different coins the two imagine to be in their would-be victim’s posses
sion, Don is not interested, and insists “First off, I want that nickel back”:
though “it’s only a fuckin’ nickel,” he wants it back and does not seem to
care what the man’s other coins may be worth...
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Strong Opinions
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 141–149.
Published: 01 March 2012
... the
labor theory of value represents commodities: the meaning and value of
the work derives from the process of its production. For the modernist
literature Adorno considers to have the highest value, this process involves
a linguistic imitation of the structure of the commodity fetish. The poem...
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Speculation, Tourism, and The Professor’s House
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 393–426.
Published: 01 December 2002
... relationship. For Cather, the tour
ist gaze—as a modern form of ritual that restores the relation between
landscape, aesthetic value, and cultural heritage—could heal the alien
ation from the land that Americans had suffered through the dominance
of speculators, who treated land as a commodity.3...
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