Ellipsis and Aposiopesis in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) On October 4, 1923, T. S. Eliot wrote to John Collier, a prospective contributor to The Criterion, about a poem Collier had submitted. “This particular type of fragmentary conversation (see p. […]
A Daughter Abandons Her Literary Mother: A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book and Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice. A Response to June Sturrock Nick Turner Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) Although there is a growing body of work on contemporary fiction, it can still take a considerable time for […]
Ruinous Fathers, Lethal Mothers: A Response to June Sturrock Lena Steveker Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) In her thoughtful essay “Artists as Parents in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book and Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice,” June Sturrock explores how Byatt draws on Murdoch’s narrative, “intensifying and darkening it […]
Artists as Mothers: A Response to June Sturrock Louisa Hadley Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) Published in 2009, A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book traces the relationships between the children and parents of various interconnected artistic families at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. […]
Authorities of Representation: Speaking To and Speaking For. A Response to Barbara Korte Lisa Lau and Ana Cristina Mendes Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) Barbara Korte’s article focuses on representations of poverty in literary studies within the conceptual framework of postcolonialism. It highlights the division between the global North […]
Against an Ethics of Absolute Otherness, for Cross-Cultural Critique: A Response to Tammy Amiel-Houser Lars Eckstein Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) In “The Ethics of Otherness in Ian McEwan’s Saturday,” Tammy Amiel–Houser proposes a Levinasian reading of McEwan’s 2005 novel which argues that most approaches to Saturday have so […]
Generic Differences: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Raimund Borgmeier Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) Burkhard Niederhoff’s very knowledgeable and scholarly essay discusses the motif of the unlived life in two outstanding English works of the 1980s and 1990s. Niederhoff analyzes first the different representations of this motif in the […]
Poetics and Politics in Robert Lowell’s “The March 1” and “The March 2” Frank J. Kearful Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) Typographical ellipsis, diverse forms of repetition, an array of rhetorical devices, sonnet configuration, and prosodic maneuvers are salient features of Lowell’s poetics that deserve close attention in any […]
The Two Bertie Woosters: A Response to Lawrence Dugan William Vesterman Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) In a lively and jargon–free analysis of well–chosen examples Lawrence Dugan pursues his study of P. G. Wodehouse in “Worcestershirewards: Wodehouse and the Baroque.” Bringing in a definition from Jorge Luis Borges, Dugan […]
If and It and the Human Condition: Considerations Arising from a Reading of The Merchant of Venice Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) In the Myth of Er at the end of Plato’s Republic we are told how the spindle of necessity, turned in the womb of eternity, […]
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