Excavating a Secret History: Mary Butts and the Return of the Nativist Andrew Radford Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) I She reminded herself of the pleasure it would be to show a stranger their land, as they knew it, equivocal, exquisite. From what she had observed of Americans, almost […]
A Response to Myrtle Hooper’s “Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith’s ‘The Sinner'” Irene Gorak Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) Myrtle Hooper’s study of “The Sinner” in the 2004−2005 issue of Connotations is one of five subtle and nuanced readings she has published of Pauline Smith’s South African story collection […]
Outlooks on Honor in Henry V and Julius Caesar Carrie Pestritto Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) KING […] If we are marked to die, we are enough To do our country loss, and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God’s will! I pray thee […]
“Stand and live”: Tropes of Falling, Rising, Standing in Robert Lowell’s Lord Weary’s Castle Frank J. Kearful Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) Tropes of falling, rising, and standing recur frequently in Robert Lowell’s poetry from Lord Weary’s Castle (1946), whose title−page illustration depicts Abel falling backwards in a field […]
The Intrusion of Old Times: Ghosts and Resurrections in Hardy, Joyce and Beyond Norbert Lennartz Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) I Since Positivism, ghosts and revenants have, if not entirely disappeared, at least been subjected to severe scrutiny. Notwithstanding the fascination for vampires and other creatures of Gothic horror […]
Donne’s Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word Margret Fetzer Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) Whenever John Donne preached at Lincoln’s Inn or at St. Paul’s, he may well have been aware of that other institution which competed with him for his listeners—even on church days: the theatre. There were […]
Bennett’s The History Boys: Unnoticed Ironies Lead to Critical Neglect John J. Stinson Published in Connotations Vol. 16 (2006/07) Any one, or a combination of the following, may be the reason why Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys (2004) has received virtually no serious attention to date from academic critics: […]
Self and Other: Narrativity in Xinran’s The Good Women of China and Sky Burial Amy Lai Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) In the past two decades, a number of Chinese diaspora writers have attained worldwide fame and sparked the interests of historians and literary critics. Nobel Prize winner Gao […]
The Person from Porlock in “Kubla Khan” and Later Texts: Inspiration, Agency, and Interruption Laura Mooneyham White Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) Of late, literary criticism has focused on the socio−cultural agency of artistic production, writing in the material elided by the classical tradition of the Muse on the […]
“Betray’d to Shame”: Venice Preserved and the Paradox of She-Tragedy Elizabeth Gruber Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) Introduction: Murdering Women As is well known, when English theaters re−opened during the Restoration, women were allowed to act in them. This innovation would seem, initially, to be an unqualified boon for […]
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