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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Twentieth-Century Fiction"”.
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy: The Construction and Destruction of the Self in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
… in experimental narratives of the early twentieth century by May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). I argue that sacrifice is used as a narrative strategy for negotiating the relationship between self and other, not only on a thematic level, but also in terms of narrative …
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… two distinct phenomena at the turn of the twentieth century: first, the exponential growth and mercurial nature of novelistic genres and, secondly, the emergence of modern global consciousness. Experimentations with genre, I argue, allowed writers to develop new narrative forms capable of …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… mathematics as a multivalent metaphor in twentieth-century fiction and theory and as a powerful cultural force integral to the development of competing modernist paradigms. Though it appears that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… mathematics as a multivalent metaphor in twentieth-century fiction and theory and as a powerful cultural force integral to the development of competing modernist paradigms. Though it appears that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to …
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Gendered readings and interpretation in selected short stories by Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Luisa Valenzuela
Although readers of twentieth-century fiction encounter texts in which a male-identified reading is subverted, critical work tends to focus its attention only rarely upon the implications of such a subversion for the male characters in such texts. Many short stories by Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri …
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Fiction and the Reaction to Photography: Literalism, the Law and the Conditions and the Control of Reading from the Invention of Photography to the 1920s
… the law in mainly English but also some American fiction from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the 1920s. I contend that late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century fiction creates an opposition between photography and the law in order to discipline its readers in certain kinds of reading …
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Labyrinths : navigating Daedalus' legacy : the role of labyrinths in selected contemporary fiction
… from antiquity through to the beginnings of the twentieth century. The shifting cultural significance of the labyrinth and its deployment in historical documents and literature alike is also evaluated. In particular, it focuses on two distinctive manifestations of the labyrinth: the Egyptian and …
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Real places and impossible spaces: Foucault's Heterotopia in the fiction of James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald
… status as a literary motif through the course of twentieth-century fiction. Initially described as an impossible space, representable only in language, the term has found a wider audience in its definition as a kind of real place that exists outside of all other space. Examples of these …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… psychological implications of advertising in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Soliciting Desire takes as its primary subjects H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Theodore Dresier’s The “Genius,” Frederick Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s Palladio, and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and …
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George Eliot’s Generative Economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894
… of the maternal body in mid-to-late nineteenth-century social realist fiction, taking George Eliot’s work as its primary case study. Using recent work in sacrifice studies as a framework, I illustrate the ways in which maternal sacrifice underpins canonical Victorian narrative structures. The …
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
… to the pain of lost friendship with a blend of fiction, biography, and elegy. As I consider *Ravelstein*’s emergence in the wake of several unfinished novels about Rosenfeld, several disappointing attempts to write a biography of Bellow, and contemporary debates about the purpose and import of …
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Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
… history of literature in the second half of the twentieth century.
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"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic
… ecophobic tendencies of characters in two twentieth century Gothic novels, Toni Morrison’s <em>The Bluest Eye</em> and Truman Capote’s <em>In Cold Blood</em>. American Gothic novels often represent patterns of historical violence. Therefore, analyzing moments of ecophobia within these …