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Staging the Postsocialist Woman: Saviana Stănescu’s Alternative Transnations
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
...)socialist knowledge. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Central and Eastern Europe immigrant theater postsocialism transnational theater women in the theater Through theatricality, the other is positioned and understood. —Jon D. Rossini, Theater in the Americas Saviana...
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“Inhospitable Splendour”: Spectacles of Consumer Culture and Race in Wharton’s Summer
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... But by
casting commerce as a lower stage to which fashionable society descends
rather than a foundation upon which fashion is built, the phrase obscures
the intimate ties between them. As Lily’s demise suggests, the social cur-
rency of Wharton’s women, “born to shop,” largely depends upon their
obscuring...
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Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance , by Carrie J. Preston
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 694–701.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to cultural
studies in general and to specific fields such as dance, theater, literature,
philosophy, and history. Many of the developments and connections she
explores have either been ignored in previous academic studies or dealt
with superficially. That said, Preston’s book does have some...
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From Cities of Things to Cities of Signs: Urban Spaces and Urban Subjects in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 413–442.
Published: 01 December 2006
... that will signal
one’s status in the social hierarchy. Dreiser’s turn-of-the-century Chicago
and New York are carefully mapped assemblages of department stores (the
novel mentions five by name) and assorted showplaces (streets, theaters,
restaurants, hotels) where the subjectivities of his...
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“Vital Contact”: Eugene O’Neill and the Working Class
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 520–546.
Published: 01 December 2003
... sweater with bold white letters spelling out American Line bespoke
not conventionality but its denial, symbolizing a determined if conflicted
rejection of middle-class canons.
In 1916, O ’Neill seems to have attempted to use his sailor’s uniform
to facilitate his first entry into the theater...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 455–462.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Stein and Contemporary North American Women’s Writing . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press . Perloff Marjorie . 1985 . The Dance of the Intellect: Studies of Poetry in the Pound Tradition . Boston : Cambridge University Press . Retallack Joan . 2003 . The Poethical Wager...
View articletitled, Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein ed. by Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch, Gertrude Stein in Europe: Reconfigurations across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions ed. by Sarah Posman and Laura Luise Schultz
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Classicism and Colonial Retrenchment in W. B. Yeats’s “No Second Troy”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of a colonial idealist home from the metro-
pole. His labors in Dublin as a playwright and theater manager, first with
the Irish Literary Theater, then with the National Theater at the Abbey,
brought him face to face with “those enemies of life, the chimeras of
the Pulpit and the Press” (Essays 119...
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Huxley’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 443–473.
Published: 01 December 2006
... “Where Are the Movies Moving?” Huxley writes that “the dark
ness o f the theater, the monotonous music” induce in the audience “a
kind of hypnotic state” (Essays 1:176).6 In an article for Close Up, Bryher
describes a stupefied film audience: “To watch hypnotically something...
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(Re)Embodying the Disembodied Voice of Lyric: The Radio Poems of Derek Walcott and Sylvia Plath
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Sarah Berry Derek Walcott’s Harry Dernier and Sylvia Plath’s Three Women , two little-known, midcentury radio plays, cultivate characters who sound like the speaker of a lyric poem, even as they foreground the invisible bodies behind the voices. In offering us voices that both invite and obstruct...
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You Must Change Your Life: Gender, Desire, and Philip Roth
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 482–488.
Published: 01 December 2006
... ‘I’ through an
embodied perspective” (22).The chapter’s argument is encapsulated in a
remark Shostak makes about the notorious Sabbath’s Theater: in R oth’s
work, “masculinism is its own critique” (59). Drawing on Freud, Lacan,
and Peter Brooks, Shostak shows how R oth has...
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To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
... that
blinds even as it illuminates. The Lincoln Theater burlesque in “Box Seat”—
a heavyweight championship fought by dwarfs—is itself a staging of the bur
lesque of Cane, as the work’s visionary lyricism, its greatest strength, is held
up to ridicule as its greatest weakness. In its dazzling...
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Ecocritical City: Modernist Reactions to Urban Environments in Miss Lonelyhearts and Paterson
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (1): 100–115.
Published: 01 March 2002
... for
New Yorkers. But does Olmsted’s work move New York toward an “ur
ban ecology,” or does it merely provide urban dwellers a pastoral cine
ma, a theater of nature? Olmsted
intended the park as a work of art to act as an agency to recon
cile art and nature; the rural and the urban...
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Modernism, Satire, and the Novel by Jonathan Greenberg
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 524–531.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Dark Hu-
mor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel (2003), Janet Montefiore’s
Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996), and Marina MacKay’s Mod-
ernism and World War II (2007). All of these studies concern themselves,
to a greater or lesser degree, with the same constellation...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 499–506.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., Ginsberg, and Burroughs were initially bound together due to “the politics of canon formation,” then the (re)integration of women writers into the Beat canon during the 1990s receives comment throughout the Cambridge Companion . Extended discussion is given to titles such as Lenore Kandel’s poetry...
View articletitled, The Cambridge Companion to the Beats ed. by Steven Belletto, Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory by Hassan Melehy, Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the “Howl” Generation ed. by Deborah R. Geis
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Literary History and its Incorporations
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 520–527.
Published: 01 September 2013
... modernist and postcolonial debates, specifically within the
United States.
In his persuasive second chapter, “Publishing Off Broadway,” Glass
explains how Grove achieved its success in promoting avant-garde—and
often European—theater in the United States. Looking at the list of
authors Grove...
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Hurston’s Art of Controversy in Dust Tracks on a Road
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
... that temporarily unsettle hierarchical relationships between Hurston and white women characters. Her desire for communal involvement in theater was apparent too in the January 10, 1932 “Negro Folk Concert” Hurston directed at the John Golden Theater in New York (she later presented this in different versions...
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Ordinary Culture in “The Dead”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2024
... : Routledge and Kegan Paul . Moi Toril . 2008 . Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Nolan Emer . 1995 . James Joyce and Nationalism . London : Routledge . Norris Margot . 2003 . Suspicious Readings...
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Molly Astray: Revisioning Ireland in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 285–310.
Published: 01 September 2000
... signals the continuing vexed status
of women in Ireland.
Thanks to her appearance in Yeats and Lady Gregory’s play Cathleen Ni
Houlihan (1902),2 Cathleen is perhaps predominantly associated today with
inciting men to die for Ireland,3 but she has not always demanded sacrifice;
and, like Dark...
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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
... politics and culture in the United States. 1 A major translator of late modernism and the avant-garde, Grove introduced US audiences to the theater of the absurd and the nouveau roman , publishing authors as important and far ranging as Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges. During the same period...
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The Popularity of Postmodernism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 354–363.
Published: 01 December 2011
...,”
“Postmodern/Postsecular,” and “Postmodern Theater and Performance.”
These courses shaped my thinking profoundly (then and to this day). In
my Twentieth-Century Interest Group, of which I was the nominal orga-
nizer, we read and debated College English’s “Twentieth-Century Literature
in the New Century...
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