Recently added articles from Twentieth Century Literature:
Concealing Leonard's nose: Virginia Woolf, modernist antisemitism, and "the Duchess and the Jeweller".(Leonard Woolf)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> "Although I loathe anti-semitism, I do dislike Jews." --Harold Nicolson (469) </Pre> On 1 May 1935 Virginia and Leonard Woolf set out by car from Harwich, England, for a month-long tour of Europe, a trip that would take them through Holland, Germany, Italy, and into France ....
John Barth's the floating opera and southern modernism of the 1950s.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Despite hailing from and frequently setting his fiction on the Eastern Shore of Maryland--a region whose history includes slavery, plantation agriculture, widespread support for the Confederate cause during the Civil War, and de jure racial segregation into the 1960s--John Barth is rarely ...
Fearful symmetry: Salman Rushdie and prophetic newness.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses a disembodied voice asks, "How does newness come into the world? How is it born?" (8). The question, as subsequent events make clear, is as much about the novel itself and what Rushdie had to do to enter the world, to make headlines, attract attention, ...
The counterlove of Robert Frost.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Frost's critics often invoke Wordsworth, or romanticism in general, in order to contrast romantic "excess" with Frost's thoroughly modern disenchantment, almost invariably diluting the complexity of romantic lyric's engagement with the natural world. JohnTimmerman, for example, makes the ...
A turning point in native American fiction?
Sep 22, 2008; ... Native American Fiction: A User's Manual by David Treuer St. Paul: Greywolf Press, 2006. 212 pages David Treuer's Native American Fiction: A User's Manual is an important contribution to the criticism of Native American literatures. The subtitle, however, ...
Remembrances of left pasts: history, memory, and the literary left: modern American poetry, 1935-1968.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... by John Lowney Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 287 pages John Lowney's History, Memory, and the Literary Left considers in detail, and with a focus primarily on single, large-scale poetic sequences or volumes, six poets who rarely get mentioned together in ...
The Bloomsbury Enlightenment project.(Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity by Christine Froula New York: Columbia University Press, 2005 (paperback 2007). 428 pages Christine Froula's scholarship has done much to transform modernist studies at the ...
A test case for cosmopolitanism.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In 1798 Immanuel Kant sat down to answer what seemed to him an "old question," namely "is the human race constantly progressing?" This question, Kant argued, cannot be answered by an appeal to experience, for even if progress is detected in the present this is no guarantee that it will ...