“Undressed—— / today’s role dangles / from a metal hanger”: Figurativity and the Economy of Means in Contemporary English Haiku Sven Wagner Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) Abstract Over the past century, North American and British haiku theorists have debated how the genre of the haiku, embedded as it […]
Epigraphs and Absences: A Comment on Rajeev S. Patke’s “Ambiguity and Ethics: Fictions of Governance in Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns” Charles Lock Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) The supplying of contexts is a basic task of literary criticism and textual interpretation. A context may be selected to demonstrate a […]
“Occult Sympathy”: Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) Drawing on the Edwardian adventure tale’s theme of hunter and hunted exemplified by John Buchan’s The Thirty–Nine Steps (1915), Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male (1939), his best–known thriller, dramatizes […]
A Letter in Response to Kenneth Muir Emma Cole Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) In Kenneth Muir’s article on Edwin Muir’s work, Chorus of the Newly Dead, he raises the possibility that the timing of Humbert Wolfe’s more popular work, Requiem, may suggest that it owes some of its […]
What Exactly Is It about Wooster’s Voice? A Response to Lawrence Dugan Sarah Säckel Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) 1. Introduction Lawrence Dugan argues that Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels differ from most of his other novels in their “baroque style” and differentiates between Wodehouse’s “baroque” and “classic” works. […]
Laws, Characters, and the Agency of the Text: An Answer to Beatrix Hesse and Lyn Pykett Philipp Erchinger Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) Beatrix Hesse’s and Lyn Pykett’s equally thoughtful and thought–provoking responses to my essay on The Woman in White have made me realise that some of the […]
Milton’s Identification with the Unworthy Servant in Sonnet 19: A Response to Margaret Thickstun David V. Urban Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) In her fine essay “Resisting Patience in Milton’s Sonnet 19,” Margaret Thickstun seeks to analyze Milton’s sonnet through a close textual analysis of Milton’s rhetorical strategy, also […]
Naming and Unnaming in Spenser’s Colin Clouts Come Home Againe Maurice Hunt Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) Both Petrarch and Boccaccio who, according to Walter W. Greg, “founded the Renaissance eclogue, [were] keenly aware of the value of pastoral for ‘covert reference to men and the events of the […]
Language Matters: An Investigation into Cliché in The Light of Day Andrew James Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) While Graham Swift’s The Light of Day (2003) was not an overwhelming success with readers and reviewers, with Germaine Greer speculating that it had been rewritten too many times and labelling […]
A Collection of Selves: Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal Teresa Bruś Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) […] because a diary is like lacework, a net of tighter or looser links that contain more empty space than solid parts. Philippe Lejeune, On Diary 1. Salvaging of Order Louis MacNeice started writing […]
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