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,1) Evelyn Waugh wrote: “Father Watts of Stonyhurst lent me a copy of Lady Southwell’s letter, preserved in the library there, describing […]
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 […]
An Addendum to “A Question of Competence: The Card Game in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock” Kathryn Walls Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) There is a misleading sentence in my response to Oliver S. Baker: “As Baker reads it, then, the diamonds of iii.79 are the Baron’s victorious […]
The Audiences of Three English Medieval Visions: A Response to Fritz Kemmler Courtnay Konshuh Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) Medieval visions have the explicit purpose of teaching their audience both the importance of salvation, and also a means by which to achieve this. In his article, Fritz Kemmler looks […]
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 […]
Creative Imagination and Didactic Intent in Medieval Visions of the Other World: A Response to Fritz Kemmler Jessica Barr Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) In “Painful Restoration: Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World,” Fritz Kemmler argues that we must revise some of our […]
Self, World and the Art of Faith-Healing in the Age of Trauma: A Response to Susan Ang’s Reading of English Music115) Susan Onega Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Susan Ang’s thought−provoking reading of Peter Ackroyd’s English Music (1992) is based on a double assumption: firstly, that it is a […]
The Perception of Relations: An Answer to Andrew Madigan and Michael Anesko Neil Browne Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) First of all, let me say that I am flattered that Professor Madigan spent so much time on my essay on William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham. Madigan […]
New Money, Slightly Older Money & “Democratic” Writing: A Response to Neil Browne Andrew Madigan Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) In this essay I will respond to, elaborate on, and critique Browne’s provocative and sometimes astute article on the “Aesthetic Economy of Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham.” The […]
“Mundane Things”: Response to Neil Browne Michael Anesko Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Neil Browne’s essay, “The Aesthetic Economy of The Rise of Silas Lapham,” asserts that the most ordinary things serve as the book’s most crucial elements—what he calls “pivot points” (1)—that shape not merely the novel’s plot […]
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