A Particular Trust: George Herbert and Epicureanism Katherine Calloway Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract This article explores George Herbert’s engagement with Epicureanism, and Lucretius in particular, with Donne and Bacon serving as important intermediaries. While differing on questions about divine care for the world and eternal resurrection, Lucretius […]
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the (Re-)Invention of Tragedy: A Response to Angelika Zirker and Susanne Riecker Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract In their contribution, Zirker and Riecker provide a comprehensive survey of how Shakespeare used his sources, especially Plutarch’s Life of Caesar and Life of Brutus, […]
Historical Fetters and Creative Liberation in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Response to Angelika Zirker and Susanne Riecker John D. Cox Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract The authors describe Shakespeare’s double tragedy of Julius Caesar and of Brutus as a creative liberation from the constraints imposed by a historical […]
Auden’s “This Lunar Beauty”: Keats’s Urn and Hardy’s Tess Clay Daniel Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract W. H. Auden’s “This Lunar Beauty” (1930) appears as homage to a pure “lunar beauty” that is defined by its sexual innocence and remoteness from the changes wrought by painful mundane experience. […]
Six-Word Stories as Autonomous Literary Works in Digital Contexts: An Answer to Paola Trimarco David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract In my answer to Paola Trimarco’s thoughtful response to my essay on parodies of six-word stories, I will take up two important issues raised by her. Trimarco […]
“Pride” in Byte and “Prejudice” in Bits: A Medievalist’s Perspective on Jane Austen’s Novel Fritz Kemmler Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract It is well known that many of the moral aspects, concepts, and themes that can be found in Jane Austen’s novels are based on the eighteenth-century tradition […]
“The prismatic hues of memory” (DC 769): Visual Story-Telling and Chromatic Showmanship in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield Georges Letissier Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract What if the memory of colour was an integral part of the act of story-telling? David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’s “favourite child,” illustrates the author’s […]
Six-Word Narratives and Hybrid Genres in Digital Contexts: A Response to David Fishelov Paola Trimarco Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract This short essay offers a reflection on six-word stories. In response to David Fishelov’s “Parodies of Six-Word Stories: A Comic Literary Metagenre,” this paper aims to complement Fishelov’s […]
The Increasing Distance between De Doctrina Christiana and Milton’s Poetry: An Answer to John K. Hale David V. Urban Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract In this essay, David V. Urban challenges John K. Hale’s assertion that scholars of Milton ought to confidently address the relationship between De Doctrina […]
Tragedy and Trauerspiel: John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi9) Anny Crunelle-Vanrigh Published in Connotations Vol. 31 (2022) Abstract Critical literature has variously described The Duchess of Malfi as tragedy, tragicomedy, or anti-tragedy. The play actually features two interrelated journeys traceable to conflicting generic backgrounds carefully yoked together. One, shaped by […]
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