The Phenomenology of Deep Surprise in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Michael Mendelson Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) On the one hand, we can think of surprise as a premonition of significance. I am surprised because some new idea or experience unexpectedly promises to be meaningful. I may not know […]
Response to “Alice was not surprised” Jean-Jacques Lecercle Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) I entirely agree with the opening and closing remarks of Angelika Zirker’s article: “Alice often is not surprised although things happen that might be regarded as ‘unexpected'” (19) and “[i]n Alice, Carroll shows that being surprised […]
(Un)Surprisingly Natural: A Response to Angelika Zirker Jennifer Geer Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) Surprise is an integral part of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, and Angelika Zirker’s analysis of “what is surprising to [Alice] and what is not” (19) is an insightful one. After all, even the title of […]
Emerson and Milton: Allusion and Theodicy Richard F. Hardin Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) In Frances M. Malpezzi’s explication, richly evocative of Milton’s presence in Emerson’s poem, I acquired a new appreciation of the American poet. As a newcomer to “Uriel,” but a veteran Milton reader, I found the […]
Response to Elena Anastasaki’s “The Trials and Tribulations of the revenants” Claire Raymond Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) The revenant presents an insolvable figure in discourse, disturbing boundaries, disrupting and confusing the difference between the dead and the living, even the difference between death and life. Elena Anastasaki’s engaging […]
A Reply to Maximillian E. Novak David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) I am delighted that Maximillian E. Novak, an authority on Defoe, has found my discussion of surprise in Robinson Crusoe useful, and am grateful for the opportunity to offer further observation on the way that Defoe’s […]
Strangely Surpriz’d by Robinson Crusoe: A Response to David Fishelov Maximillian E. Novak Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) In treating Defoe’s Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, most critics have focused on the first word, “Life”—the fictional work as creating a real world in which characters learn, […]
Pope’s Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock39) Oliver R. Baker Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) To appreciate the Ombre allusions in The Rape of the Lock a modern audience must first understand how this complicated and counter−intuitive card game is played. Successive editors have exhaustively glossed Pope’s […]
Unmanning the Self: The Troublesome Effects of Sympathy in Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserv’d. A Response to Elizabeth Gruber Roland Weidle Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) In her essay “‘Betray’d to Shame’: Venice Preserved and the Paradox of She−Tragedy” Elizabeth Gruber reads Otway’s play as a deliberate adaptation of Othello. […]
Feminine Agency and Feminine Values in Venice Preserved: A Response to Elizabeth Gruber Katharina M. Rogers Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) It appears to me that Elizabeth Gruber’s “‘Betray’d to Shame’: Venice Preserved and the Paradox of She−Tragedy” diminishes Thomas Otway’s play by reducing it to a she−tragedy that […]
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