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Lawrence F. Rhu – On Cheney on Spenser’s Ariosto

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On Cheney on Spenser’s Ariosto Lawrence F. Rhu Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Calling Spenser’s reprises of Ariosto “parody” initially strikes me as wrongheaded. But it is striking nonetheless, and that is not a bad way to capture a reader’s attention. It may not exactly fit the rhetorician’s terminology […]

Paul D. Morris – Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry: Reading the Critical Reception of Nabokovs Poetry and “The Poem” and “Restoration”

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Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry: Reading the Critical Reception of Nabokovs Poetry and “The Poem” and “Restoration” Paul D. Morris Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Vladimir Nabokov is a surprising poet.25) As a question of audience awareness, for many readers, the very designation of Nabokov as a […]

Arthur F. Kinney – Unscrambling Surprises

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Unscrambling Surprises Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) “A sense of place was everything to William Faulkner,” is the way Jay Parini begins his new biography of Faulkner (2004) entitled One Matchless Time; “and more than any other American novelist in the twentieth century, he understood how […]

Martin Stannard – In Search of a City: Civilization, Humanism and English Gothic in A Handful of Dust

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In Search of a City: Civilization, Humanism and English Gothic in A Handful of Dust Martin Stannard Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Edward Lobb’s essay, “Waugh Among the Modernists: Allusion and Theme in A Handful of Dust,” raises interesting questions about Evelyn Waugh’s intellectual history. Developing the 1980s work […]

Laura Mooneyham White – Another Response to “‘Across the pale parabola of Joy’: Wodehouse Parodist.”

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Another Response to “‘Across the pale parabola of Joy’: Wodehouse Parodist.” Laura Mooneyham White Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Leimberg’s study of Wodehouse’s gradual transformation from a writer with loose and tangential ties to realism into a writer with essentially no contact with realism at all is both entertaining […]

Christopher S. Nassaar – Some Remarks on “Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest“

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Some Remarks on “Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest” Christopher S. Nassaar Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Niederhoff’s article is interesting and reaches a significant conclusion, but it does challenge critical debate. I shall follow its own divisions in my response to it. (1) Parody […]

Frances M. Malpezzi – Emerson’s Allusive Art: A Transcendental Angel in Miltonic Myrtle Beds

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Emerson’s Allusive Art: A Transcendental Angel in Miltonic Myrtle Beds Frances M. Malpezzi Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Critics have long recognized the influence of John Milton on Ralph Waldo Emerson, and they have particularly noted that Emerson’s “Uriel” owes its title character to Milton’s Paradise Lost.96) Though Emerson’s […]