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Ryan Netzley – Learning from Anniversaries: Progress, Particularity, and Radical Empiricism in John Donne’s The Second Anniversarie

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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 […]

Sarah Powrie – Speculative Tensions: The Blurring of Augustinian Interiority in The Second Anniversarie

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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 […]

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 […]