Recently added articles from Twentieth Century Literature:
Start spreading the news: irony, public opinion, and the aesthetic politics of U.S.A.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Irony is perhaps democracy's best instrument. --Public Opinion Quarterly 1938 (T.V. Smith 19) </Pre> In 1938, the publication of The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money as a single novel provoked a flood of essays debating how John Dos Passos's U.S.A. related socially, ...
John Ashbery's Elizabeth Bishop.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... John Ashbery's poetry is conversational. While his pronouns are notoriously slippery, readers learn to expect a "you" to be addressed even in the most unexpected places, so it is safe when reading an Ashbery poem to anticipate some response from an interlocutor, whether explicitly quoted ...
Frames of reference: Paterson in "In the Waiting Room".(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Elizabeth Bishop built her much-beloved late poem "In the Waiting Room" on a childhood memory of reading National Geographic. Her memory, however, was pointedly inaccurate: the "grown-up" poet who speaks "In the Waiting Room" invented the riveting photographs that the child Elizabeth sees ...
Larkin's "Sad Steps" and the Augustan night piece.(Philip Larkin)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Unless we are dealing with embedded quotations of unquestionable provenance, there is a sense in which literary allusions are illusions, since, like that most celebrated of illusions, the rainbow, a good few of them are a function of vantage. People located at different points on a rainy ...
A Commitment to the Meaningful.(From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After)(American Hunger: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945)(William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After by Ruth Leys Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 200 pages American Hunger: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 by Gavin Jones Princeton: Princeton ...