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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 (2020) 66 (1): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that the cynic and lyric met for Douglas as two forms of special knowing, the “combat gnosticism” of war poetry, and a parallel gnosticism in love lyric. Each proposes that a special experience can utterly transform a subject: the soldier’s kind of knowing transformed by battle experience, and the lover’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 223–246.
Published: 01 June 2018
... aesthetic and sociopolitical relevance to the period and sheds further light on contemporary perceptions of Imagism and Vorticism, particularly in the context of the poetry of the Great War. 10 Marjorie Allen Seiffert similarly continued to write and publish as Elijah Hay even after Spectrism had been...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 June 2018
... is divested of politics only if we acquiesce to the critical standards she questioned . . . —that a lack of historical topicality implies no interest in political issues” (1993, 26). Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 American poetry description imperialism modernism World War II...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., public solitude took on new urgency for her in the World War II years and beyond, when Moore developed from an obscure champion of modernism to a widely read national figure. alexmouw@gmail.com Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 American poetry literary fame modernism World War II...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... European background constitutes a new object of inquiry and theory, which we call postsocialist literatures in the United States. The new representations—fiction, poetry, and theater—connect the United States to key events in the former Eastern Bloc. They emphasize the importance of state socialism and its...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the symposium, this essay uses the terms established in “Feeling and Precision” to recalibrate the ethical turn Moore’s poetry took during and after the Second World War. Drawing on the lecture’s emphasis on the “compulsion to unbearable accuracy,” the essay traces the transition from the commitment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 393–400.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-correspondents, their
cameras at the ready to record other people’s moments of crisis” (Poetry
Matters). Born in 1935, he was too young to serve in the Second World
War, but before he went up to Oxford University to read English he was
appointed second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and the Vietnam war, he thus necessarily speaks from a position that is deeply compromised—a compromise inherent in the rhetorical traditions on which his poems draw. As much as Lowell’s poetry is, as Damon argues, fundamentally concerned with the pathos of liberalism, we thus ought also to attend to how he...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... World War Poetry Criticism .” New Literary History 30 , no. 1 : 203 – 15 . Cole Sarah . 2009 . “ People in War .” In The Cambridge Companion to War Writing , edited by McLoughlin Kate , 25 – 37 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Davis Lennard J. 2014...
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“Certain Axioms Rivaling Scriptures”: Marianne Moore, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Ethics of Engagement
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 316–340.
Published: 01 September 2005
... position as a woman writing
war poetry from outside the realm of male first-hand “experience” of the
battlefield, noting Moore’s strategy of inward, dialectical questioning and her
tendency toward spiritualized allegory in her renditions of the conflict. Robin
Schulze contends that Moore...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 115–127.
Published: 01 March 2008
... provocative reading of World War I
as the expression of bourgeois self-hatred and his argument that what crit
ics have taken to be homosexual desire in war poetry is another expres
sion of the contradictions of the market economy. While Wilfred Owens’s
well-known war poetry displays the former...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 246–275.
Published: 01 June 2003
... against consolation noted in Owen
and the early Eliot, a critique of the hardy survivors among war’s con
solatory fictions. This critique, I’ll be suggesting, was of considerable so
cial consequence.
Psychological rearmament:
Returning to Arcadia
Like carpe diem poetry, proleptic elegy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 249–258.
Published: 01 June 2005
... as it was in the 1960s and 70s, so poetry on some level touches on
these circumstances that reverberate throughout all aspects of society. In
considering a poet’s complex relationship to war (Duncan certainly, but
perhaps all poets as well), Mackey writes,“Poetry, since it is also history, is
likewise double...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 477–485.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the novel Palimpsest (1926) must live with her traumatic experiences, but those experiences, and the emotions that come with them, allow the character to move from poetry writing to fiction writing, a creative move H.D. made herself, born out of her own traumatic experiences. In H.D.’s Second World War...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 345–351.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Sweeney (2020) , and Mary Esteve (2021) . If so, Seiler’s book will be one of the field’s seminal works, providing a historical and conceptual framework that links disparate works of fiction, poetry, and drama under a broad but discrete experience of inhabiting the years after the Second World War...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2001
... turned against Keats as his war experience
forced him to reevaluate and reject romanticism (63—64). Sven Back-
man, too, implicitly believes that Owen rejected Keats in his war poetry.
For Hibberd, Owen merely had a “Keatsian phase” ; one of the minor
goals...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., temporality, and eros. Chapter 1 offers readings of Wilfred Owen’s war poetry and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room (1922) linked by Giorgio Agamben’s notion of thanatopolitics (i.e., biopolitics in a state of exception) and a discussion of the problems of representing soldiers’ corpses in wartime battlefield...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 260–282.
Published: 01 June 2013
.... New Haven: Yale UP, 1998. xvii-ci.
Bromwich, David. Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. Chicago: U of Chi-
cago P, 2001.
Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry. New York:
Henry Holt, 1950.
Brunner, Edward. Cold War Poetry: The Social Text...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 97–104.
Published: 01 March 2008
... war poetry demands an analysis of the dynamics of
aggression, attachment, loss, and trauma constituting combat subcultures.
In addition, Frantzen disregards the intractable rift between home and
front, that “dismal hermeneutic circle” (262) animating many of Owen’s
canonical lyrics, wherein...
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