Leaps and Bounds: Hawthorne’s Strategies of Poetic Economy Elena Anastasaki Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is […]
In Their Own Words: On Writing in Second Person Joshua Parker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Some fifteen thousand years ago, when a painter at Lascaux or at Trois−Frères took brush to cave wall, it was with the consciousness of designing images not only for himself, but, we today […]
Poetic Economy: Ellipsis and Redundancy in Literature Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Poets and writers, artists in general, have time and again given evidence of their desire to get things right. The careful attention they pay to processes of revision, for example, may show that they want […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
Thickening the Description: A Response to John R. Reed and Efraim Sicher100) 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 […]
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