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Carl Plasa – Ekphrastic Poetry and the Middle Passage: Recent Encounters in the Black Atlantic

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Ekphrastic Poetry and the Middle Passage: Recent Encounters in the Black Atlantic Carl Plasa Published in Connotations Vol. 24.2 (2014/15) Abstract During the mid-1990s, several black Atlantic poets produced ekphrastic responses to the visual memory of the transatlantic slave trade, most notably David Dabydeen, whose “Turner” (1994) is inspired by […]

Sarah Briest – Morte Jack: The Evocation of Malory’s Arthur, Guenivere and Lancelot in Graham Swift’s Last Orders

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Morte Jack: The Evocation of Malory’s Arthur, Guenivere and Lancelot in Graham Swift’s Last Orders Sarah Briest Published in Connotations Vol. 24.2 (2014/15) Abstract A commanding individual at the centre of his community, the character of Jack Arthur Dodds in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996) represents a contemporary incarnation of […]

Adam Beardsworth – Bipartisan Poetry in the 1950s: A Response to Frank J. Kearful’s “Signs of Life in Robert Lowell’s ‘Skunk Hour'”

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Bipartisan Poetry in the 1950s: A Response to Frank J. Kearful’s “Signs of Life in Robert Lowell’s ‘Skunk Hour'” Adam Beardsworth Published in Connotations Vol. 24.2 (2014/15) Frank J. Kearful’s “Signs of Life in Robert Lowell’s ‘Skunk Hour'” lends a virtuoso’s ear to one of Lowell’s most overplayed poems. Kearful’s […]

Chris Ackerley – The “complicit we”: A Response to Edward Lobb

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The “complicit we”: A Response to Edward Lobb Chris Ackerley Published in Connotations Vol. 24.2 (2014/15) Abstract Chris Ackerley supplements Edward Lobb’s article on “Ellipsis and Aposiopesis in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’” (published in Connotations 22.2) by a close analysis of the poem’s punctuation. There is, I […]

Thomas Kullmann – Some Moondrop Title: A Response to Maurice Charney

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Some Moondrop Title: A Response to Maurice Charney Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 24.2 (2014/15) Abstract In the debate on Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire and its debt to William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, Thomas Kullmann offers a counterpoint to the original article by Maurice Charney (published in Connotations 24.1). […]

Judith Saunders – Wharton’s Hudson River Bracketed and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”: Re-Creating Xanadu in an American Landscape

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Wharton’s Hudson River Bracketed and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”: Re-Creating Xanadu in an American Landscape Judith Saunders Published in Connotations Vol. 24.2 (2014/15) Abstract Edith Wharton’s 1929 novel Hudson River Bracketed pays elaborate tribute to Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”: the poem serves as launching point for setting plot, theme, and characterization in […]

Beatrix Hesse – Somebody Else’s Poem——Poetry and Fiction in Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless” and “Dayspring Mishandled”

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Somebody Else’s Poem——Poetry and Fiction in Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless” and “Dayspring Mishandled” Beatrix Hesse Published in Connotations Vol. 24.2 (2014/15) Abstract My paper discusses two short stories by Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless” (from Traffics and Discoveries, 1904) and “Dayspring Mishandled” (from Limits and Renewals, 1932). Both of these stories are centrally […]

Elisa Segnini and Elizabeth Jones – “I was back in a dark wood”: Don Paterson’s “The Forest of the Suicides”

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“I was back in a dark wood”: Don Paterson’s “The Forest of the Suicides” Elisa Segnini and Elizabeth Jones Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract Through an analysis of Don Paterson’s “The Forest of the Suicides,” the article examines creative translation as a process that sheds light on the […]

Catherine Pesso-Miquel – Playing with the Ready-Made: Graham Swift’s The Light of Day – A Response to Andrew James

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Playing with the Ready-Made: Graham Swift’s The Light of Day – A Response to Andrew James Catherine Pesso-Miquel Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract In her response to Andrew James’s article on the use of clichés in Graham Swift’s The Light of Day (published in Connotations 22.2), Catherine Pesso-Miquel […]