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- A periodical devoted to the history and criticism of twentieth century literature.
Most Recent Articles from Twentieth Century Literature 
Modernism, dead or alive
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay NewYork: W.W. Norton, 2007. 610 pages The word modernism no longer calls to mind a simple singular...
12/22/07 by Robert Boyers · More from publicationThe seduction of argument and the danger of parody in the Four Quartets
It is a very good sign when the harmonious bores are at a loss about how they should react to this continuous self-parody, when they fluctuate...
12/22/07 by Roger Bellin · More from publicationAbove and beyond
Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place by Rita Barnard New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 234 pages Rita...
12/22/07 by Helen Kapstein · More from publication"Things that happen and what we say about them": speaking the ordinary in DeLillo's The Names
Near the end of Don DeLillo's The Names, Owen Brademas is recounting his childhood experience with glossolalia. The scene is a charismatic church in...
12/22/07 by Matthew Mutter · More from publication"Massed ambiguity": fatness in Henry James's The Ivory Tower
[T]hat they are each the particular individual of the particular weight being of course of the essence of my donnee. They are interesting that...
12/22/07 by Daniel Hannah · More from publication"Thinking strictly prohibited": music, language, and thought in "Sirens"
Taking their cue from the novelist's comments to Frank Budgen that he composed "Sirens" using "the technical resources of music"...
12/22/07 by Stuart Allen · More from publication