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Andrew Hadfield – Spenser as Prometheus: A Response to Maik Goth

Spenser as Prometheus: A Response to Maik Goth Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) I enjoyed Maik Goth’s thoughtful piece on Spenser as Prometheus. Goth explored the representation of monstrous creations in The Faerie Queene in terms of Sir Philip Sidney’s characterisation of the poet as a “maker” […]

Burkhard Niederhoff – Unlived Lives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love

Unlived Lives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love12) Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) 1. Introduction In Alice Munro’s short story “Walker Brothers Cowboy,” a travelling salesman takes his two children on a sales tour in rural Ontario. When […]

Donat Gallagher – Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion and “Lady Southwell’s Letter”

Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion and “Lady Southwell’s Letter” Donat Gallagher Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) In the “Author’s Note” to the first edition of Edmund Campion: A Biography,88) Evelyn Waugh wrote: “Father Watts of Stonyhurst lent me a copy of Lady Southwell’s letter, preserved in the library there, describing […]

Christiane Bimberg – Whose are those ‘Western eyes’? On the Identity, the Role and the Functions of the Narrator in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes

Whose are those ‘Western eyes’? On the Identity, the Role and the Functions of the Narrator in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) “In a very real sense, one cannot read this novel unless one has read it be-fore.” (Berthoud, “Anxiety” 6) Introduction […]

Matthias Galler – Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World: A Response to Fritz Kemmler

Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World: A Response to Fritz Kemmler Matthias Galler Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) In his article, Fritz Kemmler examines three visionary accounts, originally composed in Latin, that describe journeys to the other world, i.e. to hell, purgatory and […]