Attitudes Towards Death in Middle English Lyrics and Hagiography Matthias Galler Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) ‘How ben may yt At ye to deth as gladly go As to a feste?’ The attitude of the bulk of thirteenth− to fifteenth−century English lyrics towards death is captured in the refrain […]
Dis(re)membering History’s revenants: Trauma, Writing, and Simulated Orality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Hannes Bergthaller Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) “Most artful Teuth, [you], being the father of written letters, have on account of goodwill said the opposite of what they can do. For this will provide forgetfulness in the […]
“For/From Lew”: The Ghost Visitations of Lew Welch and the Art of Zen Failure. A Dialogue for Two Voices John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) [The following is a transcription of comments made by two academics in the lobby of a post−9⁄11 airport, where they sat waiting as […]
The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) 1. Introduction 1972 was Margaret Atwood’s annus mirabilis. In one and the same year, she published Surfacing, a powerful and disturbing novel that has become a classic of twentieth-century fiction, […]
Decadence and Renewal in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) The plot of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend focuses on the presumed death and ultimate reappearance of the jeune premier, John Harmon. It had been Dickens’s plan to write about “a man, young and perhaps […]
The Trials and Tribulations of the revenants: Narrative Techniques and the Fragmented Hero in Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier Elena Anastasaki Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) Reanimation, as a fantastic subject, can be found in myth and literature of all times. But towards the end of the eighteenth century […]
Echo Restored: A Reading of George Herbert’s “Heaven”116) Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) The history of this talk began with Matthias Bauer telling me, some time ago, about a lecture of his on the discovery of childhood in English seventeenth−century literature. The question that most intrigued him […]
Resurrection as Blasphemy in Canto 5 of Edmund Spenser’s “The Legend of Holiness” Åke Bergvall Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) ” … and so, who are you, after all? —I am part of the power which forever wills evil and forever works good.” (Goethe’s Faust, as used as epigraph […]
“OOOO that Eliot-Joycean Rag”168): A Fantasia169) upon Reading English Music Susan Ang Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Fathers, Sons and Vegetation Myth In “The Relics of Learning,” his review of Peter Ackroyd’s English Music, James Buchan institutes a comparison between Ackroyd and a hypothetical postmodernist architect, who, asked to […]
Anti-novel as Ethics: Lindsey Collen’s The Rape of Sita183) Eileen Williams-Wanquet Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) When The Rape of Sita came out in 1993 it was immediately attacked by a group of fundamentalists and by the State.201) The main objection, from people who had not even read the […]
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