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Edmund Miller – A Response to Margret Fetzer’s “Donne’s Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word”

A Response to Margret Fetzer’s “Donne’s Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word” Edmund Miller Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) In discussing the theatricality of John Donne’s sermons, Margret Fetzer cites a competition between the sermon and the play for an audience at the beginning of the seventeenth century (11n1). […]

Åke Bergvall – An Answer to Matthew A. Fike

An Answer to Matthew A. Fike Åke Bergvall Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Let me begin by thanking Matthew A. Fike for taking me seriously enough to engage with my article. I also want to acknowledge my debt to his excellent book Spenser’s Underworld. Given the limitations of a […]

Matthew A. Fike – A Response to Åke Bergvall’s ‘Resurrection as Blasphemy in Canto 5 of Edmund Spenser’s “The Legend of Holiness.”

A Response to Åke Bergvall’s ‘Resurrection as Blasphemy in Canto 5 of Edmund Spenser’s “The Legend of Holiness.” Matthew A. Fike Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Åke Bergvall clearly sets out his purpose in two statements early in his article. First, “I shall argue that Duessa’s act of salvation […]

Jean-Michel Ganteau – Peter Ackroyd’s English Music as Romance of Englishness: A Response to Susan Ang

Peter Ackroyd’s English Music as Romance of Englishness: A Response to Susan Ang Jean-Michel Ganteau Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract In his response to Susan Ang’s “‘OOOO that Eliot-Joycean Rag’: A Fantasia upon Reading English Music” (published in Connotations 15.1-3), Jean-Michel Ganteau further develops Ang’s arguments by suggesting […]

Laura Rice – Isabelle, a Man from Algeria: A Response to Verna A. Foster

Isabelle, a Man from Algeria: A Response to Verna A. Foster Laura Rice Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract Laura Rice’s entry into the debate on Verna A. Foster’s “Reinventing Isabelle Eberhardt: Rereading Timberlake Wertenbaker’s New Anatomies” (published in Connotations 17.1) is focussed on Eberhardt’s historicity and the biographical […]

Rochelle Rives – “No Real Men”: Mary Butts’s Socio-Sexual Politics: A Response to Andrew Radford

“No Real Men”: Mary Butts’s Socio-Sexual Politics: A Response to Andrew Radford Rochelle Rives Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract In her response to Andrew Radford’s “Excavating a Secret History: Mary Butts and the Return of the Nativist” (published in Connotations 17.1), Rochelle Rives seeks to extend Radford’s discussion […]

Eleanor Cook – Ambiguity and the Poets

Ambiguity and the Poets Eleanor Cook Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract Any fictive construct, whether in prose or poetry, will exploit the richness of diction, syntax, genre, address, and so on, including possible ambiguities. It is the particular context that gives literary meaning, just as it is the […]

Angelika Zirker – (Un)Surprises Uncovered: A Reply to Jennifer Geer, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, and Michael Mendelson

(Un)Surprises Uncovered: A Reply to Jennifer Geer, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, and Michael Mendelson Angelika Zirker Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract In her answer to the responses on her article “Alice was not surprised”: (Un)Surprises in Lewis Carroll’s Alice-Books,” Angelika Zirker emphasizes the concept(s) of play that underlie the structure of […]

H. M. Daleski – Dickens and the Comic Extraneous

Dickens and the Comic Extraneous H. M. Daleski Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract What constitutes the extraneous in fiction, let alone the comic extraneous? When Dickens is at issue, it is probably simpler to describe the comic first: he has accustomed us to the recurrent appearance in a […]