“When Mercy Seasons Justice”: Poetic Justice in Comedy Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 25.2 (2015/16) Abstract One school in the theory of comedy, which originates in Aristotle’s Poetics, maintains that the genre represents bad characters. Another school emphasises the happy ending. What follows from these two premises is a […]
Poetic Justice: A Few Reflections on the Interplay of Poetry and Justice Angelika Zirker Published in Connotations Vol. 25.2 (2015/16) Abstract Poetic justice is one of the most contentious literary issues: ever since Thomas Rymer’s coinage of the term in 1677/78, it has been seen as a fulfilment of the […]
On Poets, Poets’ Critics, and Critics’ Critics: A Response to Maurice Charney and Thomas Kullmann Beatrix Hesse Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) Maurice Charney’s “Adopting Styles, Inserting Selves: Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire” discusses Nabokov’s intriguing book in a very stimulating manner, raising numerous questions some of which have already […]
“Hey dol, merry dol”: Tom Bombadil’s Nonsense, or Tolkien’s Creative Uncertainty? A Response to Thomas Kullmann Lynn Forest-Hill Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) Studies of Tolkien’s poetry always have been rare. The recent collection of essays entitled Tolkien’s Poetry, edited by Julian Eilmann and Allan Turner, is one of […]
Melville’s Pierre and the “Church of the Bohemians”63) James McAdams Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) Abstract Upon its publication in 1851, Herman Melville’s Pierre was criticized as a disaster, a formless “Kraken” composed by a writer obviously deprived of his skills and sanity. Since then, however, scholars have reconsidered […]
Matter and Spirit, Body and Soul, Time and Eternity in Donne’s Anniversaries: A Response Judith H. Anderson Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) Abstract Judith H. Anderson’s response to the three articles in a debate on John Donne’s The Second Anniversarie (published in Connotations 25.1) contrasts the readings of Ryan […]
The Pneumatics of Inspiration in the Anniversary Poems Michael Ursell Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) Abstract This essay focuses on the Anniversary poems’ specific representation of poetic inspiration through the lens of Stoic physics. The Second Anniversarie‘s final example of triumphant afflatus, in which the poet-as-trumpet channels a breath […]
Learning from Anniversaries: Progress, Particularity, and Radical Empiricism in John Donne’s The Second Anniversarie Ryan Netzley Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) Abstract This essay argues that John Donne’s The Second Anniversarie alters how we should conceive of learning and pedagogy by advancing a radical empiricism in which particular instances […]
Speculative Tensions: The Blurring of Augustinian Interiority in The Second Anniversarie Sarah Powrie Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) Abstract John Donne’s Second Anniversary stages an internalized conversation between the poem’s speaker and his soul, in which the former interrogates and exhorts the latter to reveal its own capacities and […]
Editor’s Note Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 25.1 (2015/16) The editor’s note for Connotations, Vol. 25, is only available as PDF.
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