Artists as Parents in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book and Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice June Sturrock Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) Near the beginning of her long career as a novelist and critic, A. S. Byatt published Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965), […]
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,21) 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 Music135) 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 […]
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