Recently added articles from Twentieth Century Literature:
Wallace Stevens and the mode of the ordinary.
Mar 22, 2008; Phillips, Siobhan ... No twentieth-century poet attended more to daily routine than did Wallace Stevens. (1) From a 1927 letter that outlines his schedule (Collected 941) to a 1955 message in which he describes "trying to pick up old habits," (2) from the "Exchequering" (34) quotidian of "The Comedian as the ...
"Stench!"Arnold Bennett's end and the beginning of Finnegans Wake.
Mar 22, 2008; Henthorne, Tom ... <Pre> [Arnold Bennett] said that nothing was so insular and absurd as to suppose that the ordinary water of Paris, indeed of France, was dangerous, since hundreds of thousands of French people never drank anything else. Drink it he would. --Dorothy Cheston Bennett (156) ...
Seamus Heaney's regionalism.
Mar 22, 2008; Russell, Richard Rankin ... <Pre> Each person in Ulster lives first in the Ulster of the actual present, and then in one or other Ulster of the mind. --Heaney (Place and Displacement 4) [W]hile a literary scene in which the provinces revolve around the centre is demonstrably a Copernican one, the task of ...
On a darkling planet: Ian McEwan's Saturday and the Condition of England.
Mar 22, 2008; Ross, Michael L. ... Although Ian McEwan's recent best seller Saturday maintains throughout a conspicuous air of up-to-the-minute internationalism, that impression turns out to be somewhat misleading. In fact, in its broad outlines the book adheres to a long-familiar insular paradigm: the Condition of England ...
Medieval tradition and modern War; Bloody Good: chivalry, sacrifice, and the Great War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Briggs, Marlene A. ... Bloody Good: Chivalry, sacrifice, and the Great War. by Allen J.Frantzen Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 335 pages Popular versions of Arthurian romance feature lone knights, imperiled maidens, fortified castles, and ferocious dragons. Sweeping ...
Incedent Modernism: British Modernism and Censorship.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Nohrnberg, Peter ... British Modernism and Censorship by Celia Marshik Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 270 pages An impressively researched and carefully argued work of literary and historical scholarship, Celia Marshik's British Modernism and Censorship confirms ...
Modernism's economy of creation.(Modernism and the Culture of Market Society and Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; McCarthy, Jeffrey Mathes ... Modernism and the Culture of Market Society by John Xiros Cooper Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 289 pages Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde by Edward P. Comentale Cambridge: Cambridge University ...