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Inge Leimberg – An Answer to Barbara C. Bowen

An Answer to Barbara C. Bowen Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) Barbara C. Bowen’s response to my paper on P. G. Wodehouse gives me great pleasure. She seems to share my appreciation of Wodehouse’s genius and craftsmanship, and she makes a helpful and generous offer of critical […]

Barbara C. Bowen – A Response to “‘Across the pale parabola of Joy’: Wodehouse Parodist.”

A Response to “‘Across the pale parabola of Joy’: Wodehouse Parodist.” Barbara C. Bowen Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) This is a thoroughly enjoyable article, which combines interesting information, a plausible general argument, and a keen appreciation of P. G. Wodehouse’s sense of the ridiculous. Leimberg helpfully stresses P. […]

John Whalen-Bridge – The Politics of Playful Confrontation: Barthelme as Disgruntled Liberal

The Politics of Playful Confrontation: Barthelme as Disgruntled Liberal John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) Barthelme’s writing career is roughly coterminous with the short story renaissance that began in the late nineteen−sixties. A central figure in that renaissance, he wrote with undeviating verbal wit about domestic themes similar […]

Joseph Matthew Meyer – A Good Natured Warning: Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’

A Good Natured Warning: Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” Joseph Matthew Meyer Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) In his essay “Experience,” Emerson makes an interesting inference concerning the nature of the nineteenth−century American consciousness. “In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all […]

Eva M. Pérez – The Trials of Sincerity: William Godwin’s Political Justice v. His Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft

The Trials of Sincerity: William Godwin’s Political Justice v. His Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Eva M. Pérez Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) Godwin’s changing opinions regarding issues covered in Political Justice have been amply documented.5) My specific concern in this article is the contrast between the rational philosophy put […]

Trevor Laurence Jockims – Mourning Place in Pastoral Elegy

Mourning Place in Pastoral Elegy Trevor Laurence Jockims Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) This paper seeks to centralize the role of the pastoral place, of generic convention, as it functions within John Milton’s pastoral elegies, focussing on “Lycidas” and the Latin elegy “Epitaphium Damonis.” The sense of “conventional” as […]

Maxine Hong Kingston – A Letter in Response to Lara Narcisi

A Letter in Response to Lara Narcisi Maxine Hong Kingston Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) I like your understanding and appreciation of Tripmaster Wittman and his journeys. It’s been my standard for a good book that the characters change, not just their fortunes but their very souls. I had […]