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.75) 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 […]
The Curious History of Imagism: Of Hulme,Bergson, Worringer, and Imagism’s Readers. A Response to Andrew Hay Mary Ann Gillies Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) Imagism has long occupied a curious position in the history of Modernism. Many modernist scholars have regarded imagism as central, even essential, to the development […]
Symbolism, Imagism, and Hermeneutic Anxiety: A Response to Andrew Hay Nicholas Halmi Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) I. In an article published last year in Connotations, Andrew Hay proposed an intriguing analogy between the image as postulated in Ezra Pound’s program for Imagist poetry and the symbol as conceived […]
Three “Homes” which Gerard Manley Hopkins Enjoyed: A Counterbalance to Adrian Grafe’s “Hopkins and Home” Joseph F. Feeney Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) […] in all removes I can Kind love both give and get. (“To seem the stranger,” 1885?) After leaving his family home to become a Jesuit […]
Telling Differences: Complicating, Challenging, and Expanding Amit Marcus’s Discussion of Clones and Doubles Nicole A. Diederich Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) Amit Marcus’s “Telling Difference: Clones, Doubles and What’s in Between,” an exploration of the differences between clones and doubles in Romantic and post–Romantic fiction—most notably twentieth and twenty–first […]
Gulliver as a Novelistic, Quixotic Character? A Response to Aaron R. Hanlon David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) The economy of literary interpretation can be described as the ratio between textual details from various phonetic, syntactic and semantic levels, and explicit or implicit assumptions that we use in […]
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