Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield’s Voice and Zen Meditation Ling Chung Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Like many American poets since the rise of Imagism in the 1910s, Jane Hirshfield (*1953) writes verse with concrete, vivid imagery. However, her imagery is tactfully linked to the control and the activity […]
Reconsidering Orton and the Critics: The Good and Faithful Servant Yael Zarhy-Levo Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Joe Orton’s play The Good and Faithful Servant was written in 1964 and first broadcast on UK television by Rediffusion in April 1967. Maurice Charney, discussing the play in his article in […]
Turning the Corner of Interpretation: A Response to Elena Anastasaki Shalyn Claggett Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all […]
Hopkins and Home32) Adrian Grafe Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) I remember a house where all were good To me, God knows, deserving no such thing: Comforting smell breathed at very entering, Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood.33) In the sonnet “In the Valley of the […]
Thickening the Description: A Response to John R. Reed and Efraim Sicher45) Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) It is with gratitude that I read John R. Reed’s letter of response, which concludes by saying that the main concern of my article on Our Mutual Friend is the […]
The Woman in White and the Secrets of the Sensation Novel Lynn Pykett Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Philipp Erchinger’s densely argued essay, “Secrets Not Revealed: Possible Stories in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White”, which appeared in an issue of Connotations devoted to the theme of “Roads Not […]
Writings Backwards—Writing Forwards: A Response to Philipp Erchinger Beatrix Hesse Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) It is quite true what philosophy says: that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, IV A 164 In his […]
Sympathy, Superstition, and Narrative Form; Or, Why is Silas Marner so Short? A Response to John Mazaheri Anna Neill Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Towards the end of his article, “On Superstition and Prejudice in the Beginning of Silas Marner,” John H. Mazaheri asks me two questions. The first […]
Close Reading vs. Accretions of Dubious Scholarship: A Question of Competence. A Response to Kathryn Walls Oliver R. Baker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Three years before Alexander Pope published the five canto version of his mock−epic verse satire, these two couplets appeared in his major work, An Essay […]
Card and Courtship Plays at Hampton Court Palace: The Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory. A Response to Sean R. Silver Oliver R. Baker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) My response to Sean R. Silver’s article begins with a digression.68) One of the great card−game […]
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