Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs: A Response to Robert Lance Snyder David Seed Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract David Seed’s reply to Robert Lance Snyder’s article “Occult Sympathy”: Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs (published in Connotations […]
Signs of Life in Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour” Frank J. Kearful Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract Our colloquial phrase “signs of life” presupposes signs of death, in the midst of which, or despite which, signs of life emerge. In order to detect any in Robert Lowell’s poetry, where […]
Names and Real Names in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe: A Response to Maurice Hunt Kreg Segall Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Maurice Hunt’s study of the difficulty of successful naming in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe considers issues that would be familiar to the White Knight of Lewis […]
Poetic Insertions in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract Throughout The Lord of the Rings, narrative prose is supplemented by poems and songs. The article investigates the nature and functions of these (more than 60) insertions, with a view of providing […]
Poetry and Poeticity in Joyce’s “The Dead,” Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris, and Yehuda Amichai76) David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract The article analyzes various aspects of poeticity in the concluding paragraph of James Joyce’s “The Dead,” and distinguishes between two related but autonomous textual dimensions responsible […]
The Function of Poetic Epigraphs in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda Eike Kronshage Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract In her last novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), George Eliot included numerous epigraphs—some of them taken from different texts, some written by herself. The greater part of the epigraphs in the novel […]
Embedded and Embodied Poetry in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” Elena Anastasaki Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract Edgar Allan Poe constantly revised everything he wrote. Twice in his reediting of his works he included a poem of his own in one […]
Turning: From Verse to Prose Michal Peled Ginsburg Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract This essay deals with two literary texts dating from the second half of the eighteenth century, in which the contest between prose and verse is in some way dramatized or thematized, in order to examine […]
“Poetry in Fiction”: A Range of Options Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) “Poetry in Fiction,” the title of a special section in this and the following issues of Connotations, is deliberately ambiguous.166) It may denote the fact that works of fiction occasionally include poems or that poems […]
Beyond Authenticity of Voice: A Response to Barbara Korte Miriam Nandi Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) In her article “Can the Indigent Speak” Barbara Korte makes a convincing appeal to literary critics to confront postcolonial narratives of poverty such as Aravind Adiga’s seminal The White Tiger and Vikas Swarup’s […]
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