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, […]
The Economy of Literary Interpretation David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) 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 order to explain these details. An economical […]
Poe’s Economies and “The Fall of the House of Usher” Hannes Bergthaller Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) I. Introduction: Edgar Allan Poe and the Idea of Poetic Economy The notion of poetic economy has a considerable pedigree. According to the OED (2nd ed.), the earliest instance of the use […]
John Lyly’s Poetic Economy Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) John Lyly’s Euphues—an inventive, imaginative, provocative, allusive, and learned literary investment first published in 1578—is, for Leah Scragg, “a literary phenomenon” (1) that went through an unprecendented 17 editions by 1638. No other work of imaginative prose […]
Untold and Unlived Lives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Rebecca Suter Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) In his article on “Unlived Lives,” Burkhard Niederhoff examines the trope of the “unlived life” in two rather different works of literature, namely Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel […]
Telling the Difference: Clones, Doubles and What’s in Between152) Amit Marcus Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) 1. Introduction A common opinion is that clones are a particular type of doubles, and that both clones and doubles are replicas, copies, or imitations of an original human being. For want of […]
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