Close Reading vs. Accretions of Dubious Scholarship: A Question of Competence. A Response to Kathryn Walls Oliver R. Baker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Three years before Alexander Pope published the five canto version of his mock−epic verse satire, these two couplets appeared in his major work, An Essay […]
Card and Courtship Plays at Hampton Court Palace: The Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory. A Response to Sean R. Silver Oliver R. Baker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) My response to Sean R. Silver’s article begins with a digression.10) One of the great card−game […]
Spenser’s Monsters: A Response to Maik Goth and to John Watkins Maurice Hunt Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Recently, Maik Goth has argued that Spenser’s animal−human monsters in The Faerie Queene owe much to the poet’s endorsement of Prometheus’s creation of humankind from animal parts and that this aspect […]
Can the Indigent Speak? Poverty Studies, the Postcolonial and Global Appeal of Q & A and The White Tiger Barbara Korte Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) 1. Poverty as a Challenge for Literary Criticism In a document of the United Nations, poverty is defined as “a human condition characterised […]
Written Sounds and Spoken Letters, but All in Print: An Answer to Bärbel Höttges Hannes Bergthaller Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) First of all, I would like to thank Bärbel Höttges for her perceptive comments on my essay, providing a critical counter−point from the perspective of postcolonial theory and […]
“The Jungles of International Bureaucracy”: Criminality and Detection in Eric Ambler’s The Siege of the Villa Lipp Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) Early in The Dark Frontier (1936), the first of Eric Ambler’s eighteen novels, a director of armaments manufacturer Cator & Bliss tries to recruit […]
Ambiguity and Ethics: Fiction and Governance in Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns Rajeev S. Patke Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) Is the ethical concern, even in its realistic and concrete form, detrimental to the interests of action? Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (152) Writers have been far more […]
Lilies and an Olive Branch: On Robert Lowell’s Lord Weary’s Castle Frank J. Kearful Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) I am pleased that Henry Hart found much to praise in my “‘Stand and Live’: Tropes of Falling, Rising, Standing in Robert Lowell’s Lord Weary’s Castle,” and I find most […]
Worcestershirewards: Wodehouse and the Baroque63) 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 […]
An Answer to Edward Miller and Anita Gilman Sherman Margret Fetzer Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) I am honoured that my paper, “Donne’s Sermons as Re−enactments of the Word,” has been met by two such insightful responses by Edmund Miller and Anita Gilman Sherman. The following constitutes an answer […]
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