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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedConrad's fiction often focuses on luck, particularly on moral luck--those happenings that exceed our control but affect our standing in the world nonetheless. Such luck has a key bearing on the moral intelligibility of...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedConrad wrote "Youth," Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim to be published as a trilogy. Two months before Conrad finished Lord Jim, his publisher informed him that it was financially unviable to publish the three works...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough critics and lay readers have understood Jorge Luis Borges as an asocial and abstract thinker, their position has produced a reductive conception of Borges that obscures his most original aesthetic and...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWalter Benjamin in his 1929 essay "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia" regarded the supernatural dimension of Parisian surrealism with suspicion: as a "profane" distraction from its more...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedScholarship has established the difficulty of expressing the seemingly inexpressible experience of traumatic loss. Nevertheless, there are texts that enable expression despite this difficulty. They endow expansive,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStudies of Ian McEwan's novels have demonstrated his engagements with modernist form and neuroscience, but they have not attended to how he draws these two together with a specific purpose: to put the novel to work for...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSylvia Plath's unpublished poems and short stories from her high school years (1947-50) have received little sustained scholarly attention. Yet they offer surprising clues of the writer Plath would become, and reveal the...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald uses the concept of the Roche limit--the nearest a satellite can come to the object it orbits without being consumed by that object's gravity-to draw a boundary around human suffering so...