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Lawrence Dugan – Worcestershirewards: Wodehouse and the Baroque

Worcestershirewards: Wodehouse and the Baroque1) Lawrence Dugan Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) I should define as baroque that style which deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) all its possibilities and which borders on its own parody. (Jorge Luis Borges, The Universal History of Infamy 11) Unfortunately, however, if there […]

John Watkins – Spenser’s Monsters: A Response to Maik Goth

Spenser’s Monsters: A Response to Maik Goth John Watkins Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) Maik Goth’s essay “Spenser as Prometheus: The Monstrous and the Idea of Poetic Creation” argues that Spenser associated poetic creation in general, and his own craftsmanship in particular, with monstrosity and an open defiance of […]

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 Love40) 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 […]