Ironic Oppositions and the Articulation of Dissent in Thomas Heywood’s The English Traveller David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) Burying of wives— As stale as shifting shirts—or for some servants To flout and gull their masters. The English Traveller (V.i.220−22) Thomas Heywood’s The English Traveller gains a special […]
Ambiguities of Honour: A Response to Carrie Pestritto’s “Outlooks on Honor in Henry V and Julius Caesar” Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) “Caesar was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man” (Julius Caesar 3.2.78−100).10) Are things really as simple as that? If we follow Carrie Pestritto’s arguments […]
The Butterfly, the Fart and the Dwarf: the Origins of the English Laureate Micro-Epic Tom MacFaul Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) The three poets who can be considered England’s first laureates—Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and William Davenant—all wrote miniature mock epics in which they are concerned not with imperial […]
Painful Restoration: Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World Fritz Kemmler Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) Medieval visions of the other world require a revision of some of our current concepts pertaining to life and death so that the complex interplay of these two […]
Reinventing Isabelle Eberhardt: Rereading Timberlake Wertenbaker’s New Anatomies Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) New Anatomies (1981), Timberlake Wertenbaker’s first play to be published (in 1984), chronicles the life of Isabelle Eberhardt, the European traveller and writer who lived in Algeria cross−dressed as an Arab man at […]
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 […]
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