… To Say Nothing of Frogs and Angels: A Response to Tom MacFaul Bruce Boehrer Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Tom MacFaul offers a persuasive account of the English mock−epic tradition’s emergence out of Spenser’s, Jonson’s, and Davenant’s early experiments with the form. Rather than contesting this narrative, I […]
Written Sounds and Spoken Letters: Orality and Literacy in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Bärbel Höttges Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Ever since its publication, the narrative structure of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987) has been a popular topic of critical debate. In view of the novel’s complex architecture, this pronounced […]
About Lew Welch Aram Saroyan Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) I’m very smart, and over−educated, and so on, but you know—and I can make all kinds of points about that kinda shit—but what I really would like to do is—wouldn’t it be wonderful to write a song or a […]
Ghosts, Knowledge and Truth in Atwood: A Reader’s Guide to Six Responses Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) I have been delighted and enlightened by the six responses to “The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace.” The aim of the present reply is […]
Surfacing from Six Feet Under: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Lorraine York Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Early in his paper on the return of the dead in two novels by Margaret Atwood, Burkhard Niederhoff wisely steers clear of the old Canadian national thematic chestnut, survival. “Whether survival really […]
In Search of the Dead in Atwood’s “Isis in Darkness” and Other Texts: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff’s “The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace”13) Sharon R. Wilson Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Atwood’s non-fiction work, Negotiating with the Dead (2002), underlines many of […]
The Psychoanalytic Theme in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff18) Fiona Tolan Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) In Margaret Atwood’s 2003 dystopian novel, Oryx and Crake, the protagonist and narrator Jimmy—later known as Snowman—persistently presses the beautiful and enigmatic Oryx for details of her exotically traumatic past; […]
Should we believe her? Margaret Atwood and Uncertainty: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Margaret Rogerson Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Burkhard Niederhoff’s analysis of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972) and Alias Grace (1996) speaks cogently of the Canadian author’s fondness for ghosts, her interest in the notion of survival, and […]
A Response to “The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace” Eleonora Rao Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) An arbitrary choice then, a definitive moment: October 23 1990. It’s a bright clear day, unseasonably warm. It’s a Tuesday […] The sun moves into Scorpio. Tony […]
Truths of Storytelling: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Janice Fiamengo Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Burkhard Niederhoff has put his finger on one of the most interesting differences between Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace. In Surfacing, the narrator’s quest to survive as an emotionally responsive and responsible adult […]
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