Adopting Styles, Inserting Selves: Nabokov’s Pale Fire Maurice Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire (1962) is titled after a passage in Shakespeare’s late play Timon of Athens. Nabokov, known for his avid interest in idiosyncratic language, imitates the play’s style in this novel and […]
A Note on Sir Philip Sidney’s Art of Blending Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract This short note takes up the line of argument by critics such as William J. Ringler and Stephen Greenblatt that Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia is a blend of the heroic and […]
An Order Honored in the Breach: An Answer to Dennis Pahl Hannes Bergthaller Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract Hannes Bergthaller answers to the reactions on his article “Poe’s Economies and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’” (published in Connotations 22.1). I have read both responses to my […]
“Thy words do finde me out”: Reading the Last Line of “Affliction (I)” Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 24.1 (2014/15) Abstract One motif in The Temple is the evocation and imitation of love poetry in order to express the love of God; in “The Thanksgiving,” for instance, George Herbert […]
Fracturing the Critical Conversation on Pinter’s Language: A Response to Maurice Charney Mireia Aragay Published in Connotations Vol. 23.2 (2013/14) Abstract Mireia Aragay replies to Maurice Charney’s article on Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming (published in Connotations 21.2-3) by recasting his argument in the light of contemporary Pinter studies. Maurice Charney’s […]
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 Amichai121) 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 […]
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