John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure: An Aesthetics of Textual Surprise1) Maik Goth Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) 1. Introduction: A Taste of Surprise “This is not a conventional cookbook”:45) such a statement at the beginning of a novel surely takes the reader by surprise. John Lanchester’s 1996 debut […]
The Mystery of Vladimir Nabokov’s Sources: Some New Ideas on Lolita’s Intertextual Links Alexander M. Luxemburg Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita has been extensively analyzed. Despite the amount of critical attention devoted to it, however, Lolita remains one of those works that still provoke textual […]
Tender Is What Night? Surprises in the Growth of Fitzgerald’s Fourth Novel William Harmon Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) 1925−1934: The nine−year span over which F. Scott Fitzgerald labored at Tender Is the Night balances uneasily at October 1929, which marked a turning point in many lives and fortunes. […]
“These things astonish me beyond words”: Wordplay in William Carlos Williams’s Poetry Margit Peterfy Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) -and I? […] whistle a contrapuntal melody to my own fugue!73) A poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.131) Wordplay, in terms of its reception, may […]
Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith’s “The Sinner” Myrtle Hooper Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Is there one of us that is without sin? Let him that would listen to the evil that is spoken of another acknowledge first the evil that is within himself, and who then will dare […]
Textual, Contextual and Critical Surprises in “Désirée’s Baby”136) Teresa Gibert Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Elements of surprise play a crucial role in “Désirée’s Baby,” a short story which was widely acclaimed upon publication in 1893, has often been anthologized and remained extremely popular over the years, while the […]
“Alice was not surprised”: (Un)Surprises in Lewis Carroll’s Alice-Books Angelika Zirker Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Surprises are connected with the idea of the unexpected.169) Yet, even at the very beginning of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, we find that Alice often is not surprised although things happen that might […]
Robinson Crusoe204),”The Other” and the Poetics of Surprise David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Textual Surprise: Some Basic Observations I would like to present a few interesting and surprising episodes of encounter between Robinson Crusoe and ‘the other’ in Defoe’s story. While discussing these episodes, I will also […]
Analogies and Insights in “Morpho Eugenia”: A Response to June Sturrock Dirk Vanderbeke Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) In “True Stories and the Facts in Fiction,” her essay on “the relations of precise scholarship and fiction” (92) and in “The Conjugial Angel” and “Morpho Eugenia,” the novellas published together […]
Analogy and Contiguity: A. S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale Annegret Maack Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) In her article June Sturrock comments on the interdisciplinary aspects of Byatt’s novella “Morpho Eugenia” and concentrates on the many analogies which help the main characters find out who they really are. The […]
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