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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 54–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Arthur Rose; Chull Wang Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Arthur Rose and Chull Wang
Questions of Hospitality in Coetzee’s
Diary of a Bad Year
Arthur Rose and Chull Wang
Writing is not free expression. There is a true sense in which
writing is dialogic: a matter...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 70–85.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Johan Geertsema Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Johan Geertsema
Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year,
Politics, and the Problem of Position
Johan Geertsema
Why is it so hard to say anything about politics from outside
politics? Why can there be no discourse about...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Thomas S. Davis © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 The Historical Novel at History’s End: Virginia Woolf’s The Years
The Historical Novel at History’s End:
Virginia Woolf’s The Years
Thomas S. Davis
It seems as if there were no progress in the human race, but only...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 96–103.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Cyrena N. Pondrom The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: Apprentice Years, 1905–1918, Volume 1 , by Eliot T. S. . Edited by Brooker Jewel Spears and Schuchard Ronald . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 . 790 pages. Digital...
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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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 333–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Elizabeth Yukins In the posthumously published Three Days before the Shooting . . . (2010), Ralph Ellison’s protagonist spends years as a film actor and filmmaker, and cinematographic effects appear throughout the narrative. Sharply aware of what he called the “enormous myth-making potential...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marian Eide Contemporary Irish poetry is producing a tradition of memorial to the Famine years of the 1840s. Countering purist versions of Irish identity as Catholic, indigenous, and rural, this body of work is provoked by Famine memory to explore Irishness as diasporic and widely transnational...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Cheryl Alison In 1952, Ralph Ellison published Invisible Man to acclaim, though the novel’s subterranean ending has inspired critical debate. For over forty years afterward, he worked on his second novel, unfinished when he died in 1994. This article considers what was at stake for Ellison both...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 187–189.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Michele Elam The winner of this year’s prize is Mark A. Tabone’s “Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues.” The judge is Michele Elam. Elam’s scholarship and teaching in interdisciplinary humanities research spans literature and social science...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
...-building even as it queers the very concepts of place and belonging. In the narrative, set in 1928, the year of the publication of The Well of Loneliness , the protagonist witnesses an erotic relationship between two girls without wanting to acknowledge what is happening; it examines both the yearning...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 245–270.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Conrad Steel Before he was a famous poet, Allen Ginsberg was a market researcher. He stopped only when he managed to persuade his employer to automate his job out of existence (using one of the commercial computers that had first become available four years earlier); the resultant unemployment...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 241–243.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Barbara Foley The winner of this year’s prize is Conrad Steel’s “Standard Forms: Modernism, Market Research, and ‘Howl.’” The judge is Barbara Foley, Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Foley’s chief scholarly and political interests are in the fields of African...
Journal Article
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...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 619–656.
Published: 01 December 2013
... sport. T. S. Eliot was a
champion athlete in this regard, and as an adult he relished poking fun
of his younger self, especially the schoolboy. What some might refer to as
their carefree youth Eliot recalls in a commemorative talk as “my early
irresponsible years” (Criticize 44).1 Singling out...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 328–340.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Brian McHale 2011 Brian McHale
Break, Period, Interregnum
Brian McHale
If it remains somewhat unclear whether we have actually gotten beyond
postmodernism yet, nothing could be clearer than that we have left its
peak years behind us, presumably somewhere in the Seventies...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): ix–x.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Michael Ryan Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Twentieth-Century Literature’s
Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism, 2012
The winner of this year’s prize is Vicki Tromanhauser’s “Mrs. Dalloway’s
Animals and the Humanist Laboratory.” The judge is Michael Ryan, pro-
fessor...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Hofstra University 2020 archive “Burnt Norton” Four Quartets modern poetry The Waste Land Recognizing increasingly in this year of our lord 1957 Vital Truth is a priceless heritage in the world of letters or Mankind, to pass on to future generations, I bequeath this collection...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., or both, Berryman understood that “in letters, as in no other form of writing, the man appears” (1). That thought, written in an undergraduate essay at Columbia, would resurface decades later in a letter to his seven-year-old son, Paul: “I would expect you to keep my letters, so that you can read them...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 June 2003
... in the inaugural issue of Ms. magazine in January 1972. Moore
died the first week of February. She was 84 when the letter arrived and
quite ill. She almost certainly never saw it.
This letter is a harbinger of what would be asked of women writers
over the next 30 years. Although confessional poetry had...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 99–110.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Museum and Library in Philadelphia, is immense: the
poet was an epic letter-writer (when she was in college, her missives
home could run to twenty or thirty pages), and a world-class pack rat.
Still, “eight years and six hundred draft pages into the project,” confesses
Leavell, “I realized...
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