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Tammy Amiel-Houser – The Ethics of Otherness in Ian McEwan’s Saturday

The Ethics of Otherness in Ian McEwan’s Saturday Tammy Amiel-Houser Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Since the 1980s, Ian McEwan’s literary oeuvre has displayed a growing concern with the relation between literature and ethics, becoming progressively more involved with public and historical issues, and turning attention to the moral […]

Jane Hirshfield – Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield’s Voice and Zen Meditation: A Letter in Response to Ling Chung

Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield’s Voice and Zen Meditation: A Letter in Response to Ling Chung Jane Hirshfield Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Dear Ling Chung, I am deeply moved by the profound attentiveness you have brought to my poems’ words, and to my practice understanding, in your essay. […]

Adrian Grafe – Hopkins and Home

Hopkins and Home87) 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.88) In the sonnet “In the Valley of the […]