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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 137–144.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jill Kress Karn Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts , by Orlando Emily J. , Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2007 . 250 pages. Edith Wharton and Victorian Visual Culture Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts by Emily J. Orlando...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . Steinberg Leo . 1972 . “ Other Criteria .” In Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art , 55 – 92 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Tickner Lisa . 1994 . “ Men’s Work? Masculinity and Modernism .” In Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations , edited by Bryson...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 255–262.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Frances Dickey Ezra Pound and the Ideology of Art Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism by Rebecca Beasley Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 221 pages Frances Dickey Ezra Pound’s significant engagement with visual art and artists makes him a natural subject...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 640–644.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to photography and scientific illustration makes some important arguments relevant for literary scholars interested in Victorian visual culture in general and Darwin in particular. Prodger’s main focus is on the dialectical relation between Darwin’s work and nineteenth- century photography...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 436–439.
Published: 01 December 2004
... major claims.The first is that Chinese visual culture played a more significant role in the formation of American literary modernism than has been recognized. Supported by a wealth of new findings obtained from his meticulously conducted research in museums and archives, Qian demonstrates how...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Modernism and Visual Culture . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Jarvis Claire . 2016 . Exquisite Masochism . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Jenkins Lee . 2015 . The American Lawrence . Gainesville : University Press of Florida . Kochis Matthew...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 March 2017
... consideration of how the illusion of transparency invites connection to other times, places, and people—and just as readily forecloses it. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Material history Mrs. Dalloway “A Sketch of the Past” Virginia Woolf visual culture Shop windows, car windows, house...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 324–331.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., sometimes vexed, but always interesting relationships between canonical (white) and other versions of or approaches to modernism. Finally, two useful reviews close out the volume, one by art historian Mary Ann Calo on recent studies of African-American modernist visual culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 177–202.
Published: 01 June 2023
... as the impetus for many of his experiments with form. [email protected] © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Natalie Mann New Negro movement uplift visual culture In autobiographical writings from the 1930s, Jean Toomer conveys the impression that his early development as a writer...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
... manifestations of consumer and visual culture, such as the shop window display and the cinema, and in light of her concerns about race. Recent studies by Monica Miller, Daphne Brooks, and Grace Elizabeth Hale have increased our understanding of the connections among race, spectacle, and consumption...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of African American death, which take on the quality of autopsy rather than art. Du Bois turns the lens around in an effort to reclaim the aesthetic possibilities of media: “turning,” she adds, “the ideological apparati of white visual culture back onto itself” (95). By hijacking technologies that so often...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): vi–viii.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her most recent book is The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. She is working on a series of essays on memory, mobility...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of a visual tropology. Moreover, the gathering of “Our Lady” references encodes an art historical context, denoting several of the common ways in which the Virgin has been depicted in visual culture. 11 There is evidence that Virgin Mary iconography had particularly personal significance for H.D. After she...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 333–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
....” As Bliss fantasizes that he disintegrates and then is reintegrated into a cultural whiteness, Ellison suggests how the visual strategies of the mainstream film industry work in relation to the delimitations of race in twentieth-century America, both symbolically and materially. In 1896, the year...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 463–484.
Published: 01 December 2020
... : Norton . Bishop Edward . 1991 . Virginia Woolf . London : Macmillan . Brain Robert Michael . 2009 . “ Protoplasmania: Huxley, Haeckel, and the Vibratory Organism in Late Nineteenth-Century Science and Art .” In The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture , edited...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 199–230.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Cartoon.” American Literary History 4.1 (Spring 1992): 110-28. Rpt. and expanded in After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995.129— 46. Rosen, Alan. “The Language of Survival: English as Metaphor in Spiegelman’s Maus...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 318–324.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., but always interesting relationships between canonical (white) and other versions of or approaches to modernism. Finally, two useful reviews close out the volume, one by art historian Mary Ann Calo on recent studies of African-American modernist visual culture and the other by Kevin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 507–512.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and important archival documents that are unavailable elsewhere. This vigorous and valuable book also offers a useful opportunity to survey the contours of current Auden criticism and speculate on where it might go next. In its emphasis on the archive, genetic criticism, visual culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 513–519.
Published: 01 September 2013
... “Proust’s China” draws out a very specific notion of China’s “high craft” (and Asian “techne”) that found its way into A la Recherche du Temps Perdu through the orientalist visual culture of Johannes Vermeer, and made important contributions to Proust’s notion of temporality and writerly technique...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 414–440.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of the overlap between mass culture and radical technique.10 Nevertheless, by the 1940s mainstream American cin- ema had largely defined itself in opposition to the formal experimentation and radical technique associated with Europe and the avant-garde visual arts—in opposition, that is, to the modernist...