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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 228–236.
Published: 01 June 2017
... others, starting with the Romantics. In addition, he suggests convincingly that decadent attitudes were confirmed by the horrors of the Great War in ways that triggered responses from modernists. Based on his previous writing about World War I, Sherry is well qualified to make that historically informed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 223–246.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the most resonant poetic responses to World War I. Recent criticism of Spectrism understandably tends to emphasize the hoax aspects of this fascinating episode in modernist history, focusing for example on the performance of identity. Yet Bynner himself stated his genuine affirmation of the anthology’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Oliver Harris Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg,
Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political
Economy of Beat Letters
O liver H arris
n June 23, 1953, an aspiring poet employed as a copyboy for the New
York World Telegram...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 100–114.
Published: 01 March 2000
...John H. Timmerman Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Tim O’Brien and the Art of the True
War Story: “Night March” and
“Speaking of Courage”
John H. Timmerman
he Vietnam war story is not simply about the rise and fall of nations
(South Vietnam, North...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Sean Grattan Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form , by Saint-Amour Paul . Oxford University Press , 2015 . 347 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 In a recent New York Times blog entry entitled “Waiting for the Bomb to Drop,” Paul Saint-Amour writes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Rob Doggett Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 H I
Writing Out (of) Chaos:
Constructions of History in Yeats’s
“Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” and
“Meditations in Time of Civil War”
Rob Doggett
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 519–527.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Juliana Chang War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work , by Schlund-Vials Cathy J. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2012 . 243 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 As our everyday attention grows saturated by media reports of bloodshed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Matthew Thompson In reading Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) this essay proposes a definition of total war that illuminates the close connection between the rhetoric of war and the rhetoric of imperialism. Building on the recent scholarly accounts of how “totality” is never truly possible...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1 British Second World War propaganda poster (“Freedom” 1941).
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 328–359.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Liesl M. Olson Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI
Gertrude Stein, William James, and Habit
in the Shadow of War
Liesl M . Olson
Sow an action & you reap a habit; sow a habit & you reap a
character; sow a character and you reap a destiny...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 247–270.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Anna Teekell By reading Samuel Beckett’s famously “unreadable” novel Watt (1953) in context as a novel of the Irish Emergency, the neutral Irish Free State’s euphemism for World War II, this essay argues that Watt ’s unreadability and encodedness are embodiments of the languages of post-traumatic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 97–104.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Marlene A. Briggs Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War , by Frantzen Allen J. , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2004 .335 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 Reviews
Medieval Tradition and Modern War
Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Claire Seiler Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry , by Quinn Justin . Oxford University Press , 2015 . 218 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Justin Quinn’s new book tracks the movement of Central and Eastern European (primarily Czech) and American...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 345–351.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the Covid-19 pandemic. In any case Seiler has added something crucial to Kermode’s midcentury argument about the sense of an ending. In Kermode’s account of modernity, the end is baked into the feeling of being in the middle. Seiler, as I read her book, suggests that after the Second World War, the end...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 March 2001
...William Adair Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 The Sun Also Rises:
A Memory of War
William Adair
When strong enough to climb the hill behind Harlech [Wales]
and revisit my favourite country, I could not help seeing it as a
prospective batde field...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 80–113.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jason M. Coats Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 w
“Part of the War Waste”:
Pound, Imagism, and Rhetorical Excess
Jason M. Coats
In Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Pound asserts that “London stank of
decay back before 1914 and I have recorded the feel of it in a poem here...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the “political instrumentalization of the literary text.” 3 See Chin et al. 1997 : xii. 2 Kim (2010 : 8) asks us to consider the Cold War “not solely as a historical epoch or event, but as itself a knowledge project or epistemology.” 1 See Zhou and Najmi 2005 ; Davis and Lee 2006 ; Park...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... monster to hero. This article argues that Thomas Harris’s prequel novel, Hannibal Rising (2006), makes Lecter more palatable by portraying his serial murders as an act of vengeance against a postwar society that allowed war criminals to rejoin the consumer milieu. Hannibal Rising uses graphic depictions...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Hannah Simpson; Megan Girdwood; Patrick Burley; Hannah Simpson; Megan Girdwood; Patrick Burley © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. [War is] the most radically embodying event...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2020
...James Brophy The war poet Keith Douglas wrote in 1943 that he sought a “balanced style” where “cynic and lyric” might meet. In focusing on a set of four poems that he had written in May and June of that year—“Vergissmeinnicht,” “Aristocrats,” “How to Kill,” and “Enfidaville”—I propose...
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