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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 […]

Jessica Barr – Creative Imagination and Didactic Intent in Medieval Visions of the Other World: A Response to Fritz Kemmler

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 […]

Susan Onega – Self, World and the Art of Faith-Healing in the Age of Trauma: A Response to Susan Ang’s Reading of English Music

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 […]

Andrew Madigan – New Money, Slightly Older Money & “Democratic” Writing: A Response to Neil Browne

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 […]

Michael Anesko – “Mundane Things”: Response to Neil Browne

“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 […]