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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 March 2001
...). The following suggests that Hemingway’s
The Sun Also Rises is much more narrator Jake Barnes’s memory o f war
than has been recognized, in terms of landscape, imagery, allusions, and a
recurring story of wounding. In this complex, poetic novel, war and
wounding constitute a major pattern...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 249–274.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Trevor Dodman Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 HI
“ Going All to Pieces” :
A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative
Trevor Dodman
Bullet wounds do not cause severe bleeding unless they hap
pen to injure some large trunk or smash one of the larger bones.
Wounds...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 92–113.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of horror in
flicted “the wound” that never healed; the physical wound at Fossalta
came too late for such effects. The girl watching a childbirth on the
Karagatch Road (71)2 at least got to cry, and might well have recovered,
but Nick appears never to have done so...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... eschatologically realized form, thus recovers the pleromatic Aryan body in ritualistic performance. Roberto Esposito (2013 : 29) hence characterizes “totalitarianism” as “the phantasmatic temptation of abolishing the limit, of filling in the fault, of closing the wound” such that the “community might...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 421–448.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., in the northern town of Etaples, about 3 miles from the Straits of
Dover, which housed a massive medical complex for wounded soldiers
and military personnel traveling to and from England. The site became
increasingly vulnerable during the German push in spring 1918, and Brit
tain recollects: “I shall...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 58–79.
Published: 01 March 2009
... end of first lesson. (74)
After some confusion, the narrator once again makes a breakthrough with
his student: “the day comes we come to the day when stabbed in the arse
now an open wound instead of the cry a brief murmur done it at last”
(75). Having established and elaborated on the brutal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 2016
... he was recovering from shrapnel wounds he suffered as an ambulance driver for the Italian army during World War I. 8 The fact that von Kurowsky broke Hemingway’s heart with a “Dear John” letter has led many critics to read Catherine’s death as Hemingway’s fictional revenge. 9 Such scholarship...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
... or existential way,
dogged, wounded, even castrated “from the start.” This could be a more
general human problem, but the term bitched seems to narrow the field
by half in implying that the condition it names is—that bad thing—to
be feminized.
While feminization is not a word Hemingway himself...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 104–109.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., since so much of Eliot’s influential work as a critic, editor, and poet was still to come in 1922. Crawford declares simply and clearly in his introduction what principle has shaped his study. “Not marmoreal, but wounded and sometimes wounding, young T. S. Eliot may be imposingly erudite...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
...:
“The cultism of myth,” Rahv added, betrays “the fear of history,”
and “is patendy a revival of romanric longings and attitudes— Now
myth, the appeal of which lies precisely in its archaism, promises
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Myth and History in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
above all to heal the wounds of time...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
... problems, seeming to consign the silent, inaccessible wound to forgetting and oblivion. Cathy Caruth’s foundational work pushes against the aestheticization of suffering, characterizing trauma as a lacuna or a breach; for her, trauma cannot be located in a singular event or experience but instead resides...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., end up wounded, limping, or fractured.12 But it is from
the precariousness of those broken selves that a real acknowledgment of
the other might emerge, once the obsession with filiation (the primacy
of ancestral roots as a source of stable identity) and master narratives...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2001
... tempers this pessimism with the
regenerative potential of the aesthetic. When existing political and social
metaphors fail to hold the subject’s allegiance, Rushdie suggests, we must
turn to the aesthetic to provide a new perspective, to heal historical
wounds enough to make renewed...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 305–335.
Published: 01 September 2014
... between skin and outside world emphasizes surface
over depth: selfhood is not immanent but, rather, made and unmade by
whom and what we touch. But Crane also figures intimacy as a kind of
penetration, referring to “the bed of the wound.” That phrase connects
erotic intimacy and brutal penetration...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
...
past and present can be thought of, following Berger’s formulation, as the
traumatic.8
Freud borrowed trauma, the Greek word for wound, to name the
phenom enon o f a shocking event that proves unassimilable to conscious
375
Samuel Cohen
ness, gets repressed or lost in memory...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 437–466.
Published: 01 December 2005
... that I am your father.” But blood is stream
ing from a wound in his forehead. “Murder,” he shouts, “mur
der, murder.” Helplessly I watch the blood streaming. At last my
voice tears itself loose from my chest. I too shout: “Murder, mur
der, help, help,” and the sound fills the room...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... (see Bachmann 1991 : 19–21). Clearly, if language itself has been traumatized, if it has suffered a wound that does not bleed through its enslavement to Nazi ideology, our ability to use language as a means of addressing, coping with, or even denying and fleeing from, our traumas has been severely...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 493–513.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., somewhere becoming rain” (94).
Such shafts are wounding, of course, and the arrow rain in “Whitsun
Weddings” is double edged, figuring also as the penetrating phallus, an
object of violence: “girls, gripping their handbags tighter, stared / At a
495
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
religious...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 409–415.
Published: 01 September 2009
... time, McCann argues, El-
lison turns black people into a renewed image of the presidency itself, in
which black martyrdom, paradoxically, guarantees national justice.
By the Vietnam era, McCann claims, the wounded veteran had taken
up this martyrological mantle in the popular imagination...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Buchanan’s attempt to declare victory in and over the
past and move on, while trauma narratives work to examine past wounds
as a way to heal and move past them—in both forms the past is engaged,
but only for the purpose of transcending it in the interests of the present
and future. The novels...
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