Recently added articles from Twentieth Century Literature:
"Part of the war waste": Pound, imagism, and rhetorical excess.(Ezra Pound)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Pound asserts that "London stank of decay back before 1914 and I have recorded the feel of it in a poem here and there" (48). Elsewhere in that book he offers an odd prescription to go along with his cultural diagnosis: "I am a flat-chested highbrow. I ...
Competing Paradigms of Multiculturalism?('Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity', 'Multiculturalism and the Jews')(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity by Jonathan Freedman New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 388 pages Multiculturalism and the Jews by Sander L. Gilman New York: Routledge, Taylor, and Francis, 2006. 293 pages ...
The calligraphy of desire: Barthes, Sade, and Beckett's How It Is.(Roland Barthes, Marquis de Sade, Samuel Beckett)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> One is the victim of everything one writes. --Samuel Beckett (qtd. in Abbott 109) </Pre> "If something is 'communicated' in writing," Roland Barthes wrote, "it is not a reckoning, or 'reason' ... but a desire" ("Masson's Semiography" 155). Throughout his late work, and ...
V. S. Naipaul and the 1946 Trinidad general election.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Precisely because history as the verbal representation by man of his own past is by its very nature so full of hazard, so replete indeed with the verisimilitude of sharply differentiated choices, ... it never ceases to excite. The historical discourse is the world's oldest ...
Bedrock, erosion, and form: Jorie Graham and Wittgenstein.
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Few phenomena gave me more delight than to observe the forms which thawing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut on the railroad. --Thoreau (344)On the floor of the empty carriage lay five or six kernels of oats which danced to the vibrations ...