{"title":"Palindromitis: Reversibility, Undoing, and the Time of Language","authors":"Jonas Rosenbrück","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.21.1.0133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.21.1.0133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81718514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Naturalism's Worldly History","authors":"Christopher L. Hill","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0001","url":null,"abstract":"THE NATURALIST FICTION THAT BEGAN TO APPEAR IN THE UNITED STATES in the s was part of a transnational phenomenon that saw this amalgam of meticulous description, ideas from the emerging social sciences, dystopian plots, and rejection of common literary mores spread from France, where it took shape in the s, to many parts of the world. By the s, varieties of naturalist fiction had appeared in countries across Europe, North and South America, and East Asia. The connections of American literary naturalism to the far-flung phenomenon, and in particular to the French version associated with Émile Zola, once were readily acknowledged by critics and literary historians. For several decades, however, the productive emphasis on the immediate social, economic, and political context in which writers work has drawn attention away from American naturalism’s transnational ties. Yet the circulation of naturalist","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75579294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A \"Correspondence of Eyes with Eyes\": Edwin Arlington Robinson, Empathy, and Literary Naturalism","authors":"Kylan Rice","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0179","url":null,"abstract":"EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ’S POPULAR POEM “RICHARD CORY” () examines the world-warping pitfalls involved in knowing other minds. The poem records a series of assumptions made on the part of a tragic chorus peopled by the poor inhabitants of a small town, perceiving and speaking in aggregate. Seeing Cory’s wealth, gentlemanly deportment, and “human” affability, the townspeople express envy of his station and implicitly project stability and contentment onto someone who, much to their surprise, goes home “one calm summer night” to “put a bullet through his head” (Robinson , ). Indeed, before Cory committed suicide, the speakers admit: “We thought that he was everything/To make us wish that we were in his place” (Robinson , ). The poem’s flatly delivered, skull-","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85840388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Over Here: America's Great War Mobilization and Transnational Alternatives in Mary Austin and Ellen Glasgow","authors":"D. Mrozowski","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85475624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Anticapitalist Polemic to Novel of Success: Reader Reception of Theodore Dreiser's The Financier in Soviet Successor States","authors":"L. Squires","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0075","url":null,"abstract":"“Русский Драйзер” явление значительное и важное в нашем духовном мире. Книги великого американца читаются у нас по-прежнему с неослабным интересом, помогая нам понять Америку, мир, человека и доставляя высокое художественное наслаждение. Если попытаться выразить одним словом наше представление о Драйзере-художнике, то, пожалуй, трудно подобрать что-нибудь более удачное, чем название одного из его романов.—Титан","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79927330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Vanity, Fake News, and Flair: Naturalism's International Entrance into Harlem in Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth","authors":"Jericho Williams","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0103","url":null,"abstract":"THE RECENT PUBLICATION OF TWO OF CLAUDE MCKAY ’S NOVELS FROM the s, Amiable with Big Teeth () and Romance in Marseilles (), represents significant developments in the relationship between African American literature and American literary naturalism. Although scholars have previously acknowledged Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Ann Petry as important African American contributors to naturalist traditions, these authors still receive far less attention than “canonical” naturalist writers such as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Jack London, and Theodore Dreiser. Presently, and at least partially because of literary naturalism’s decades-long focus on “white-authored writings and social Darwinist discourse” (Kilgallen , ), one that has cumulatively “relegated [African American authors] to the proverbial margins” (Long , ), the foremost African American contributors are","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78125079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scale Shifts from Polk Street to a Broken Earth; or, Literary Naturalism's Geontological Affordances","authors":"C. Robinson","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0047","url":null,"abstract":"IN HIS RECENT “RE-VISIONING AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM,” MARC Egnal identifies two problems in the study of American naturalism. First, naturalism scholars can be accused of a myopic preference for the canonical authors Frank Norris, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, and Stephen Crane. Then, based on this myopia, naturalism enjoys an undeservedly “broad temporal reach” as latter-day authors like Hemingway, DeLillo, and McCarthy earn the naturalist title by stylistic resemblance to Norris and company. Egnal proposes to solve both problems by replacing the author myopia with a Darwinian one; only “works in which the ‘laws’ of heredity, or environment, or both strongly influenced how characters behaved” are","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85083675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: No Time for Linear Time","authors":"Mieszkowski, Ng","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.21.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.21.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76216070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naturalist Compulsion, Racial Divides, and the Time-Loop Zombie","authors":"Bryan Yazell, Hsuan L. Hsu","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.3.0023","url":null,"abstract":"COLSON WHITEHEAD ’S ZONE ONE () POPULARIZED A NEW KIND OF zombie: neither the slow, lumbering, hungry zombies made famous in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead () nor the more recently introduced fast zombies of Days Later () and World War Z (), but the time-loop zombie compulsively repeating a habitual action. Whitehead’s “stragglers”—a succession of imponderable tableaux frequently consisting of bodies going through the motions of their everyday labor—shift the zombie’s instinctive drive from hunger to a blend of habit and nostalgia. At the same time, they introduce into the zombie narrative","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83228016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Other Side of the Drive for Power: Transcendental Violence and Its Deconstruction","authors":"F. Vitale","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.2.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.20.2.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78922992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}