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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 […]

Robert Lance Snyder – Apropos of Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs: An Answer to David Seed

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Apropos of Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs: An Answer to David Seed Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract In Connotations 24.1, Robert Lance Snyder answers to David Seed’s critique of his article on Geoffrey Household’s spy novels Watcher in the […]

Horace Jeffrey Hodges – Milton’s Astronomy and the Seasons of Paradise: Queries Motivated by Alastair Fowler’s Views

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Milton’s Astronomy and the Seasons of Paradise: Queries Motivated by Alastair Fowler’s Views101) Horace Jeffrey Hodges Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract In his annotated edition of Paradise Lost (1998), Alastair Fowler makes two strong claims concerning the astronomy of Milton’s prelapsarian universe: 1) the plane of the celestial […]

Kreg Segall – Mucedorus and Counsel from Q1 to Q3

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Mucedorus and Counsel from Q1 to Q3 Kreg Segall Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract In 1598, the first quarto (Q1) of the anonymous play Mucedorus was printed; the play would go on to tremendous success, going through more than fifteen editions. The most significant revision was the 1610 […]

Susanne Jung – “A Chorus Line”: Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad at the Crossroads of Narrative, Poetic and Dramatic Genres

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“A Chorus Line”: Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad at the Crossroads of Narrative, Poetic and Dramatic Genres Susanne Jung Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract In her novel The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood artfully employs a mix of narrative, poetic, and dramatic styles. While the main narrative – a retelling of Homer’s […]