Translating English: Youth, Race and Nation in Colin MacInnes ‘s City of Spades and Absolute Beginners Nick Bentley Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Introduction The 1950s represent a key decade in the formation of an English national identity based on multicultural and multiethnic principles. This process was informed by […]
Jane Austen Meets Dickens: A Response to Thierry Labica Jean-Jacques Lecercle Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) In Thierry Labica’s “War, Conversation, and Context in Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude” I find myself, through direct interpellation, incited to justify a passing thought (that “Patrick Hamilton was a Marxist alcoholic […]
Waugh Among the Modernists: Allusion and Theme in A Handful of Dust Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh’s fourth novel, occupies a pivotal place in his work. Though it includes many of the comic and satiric elements that made his first […]
“… and the long secret extravaganza was played out”: The Great Gatsby and Carnival in a Bakhtinian Perspective Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) The supreme ruse of power is to allow itself to be contested ritually in order to consolidate itself more effectively. Georges Balandier32) From antiquity, […]
Love, That Four-Letter Word: A Response to Amanpal Garcha Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Amanpal Garcha’s critique of my reading of Mansfield Park with Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class hinges on what he regards as my underestimation of sexual desire in Austen’s novels. In fact Dr. […]
A Letter in Response to “Catholic Shakespeare” Thomas Merriam Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Dear Sirs, It was a matter of great interest for me to read Professor Honigmann’s “Response to Hildegard Hammerschmidt−Hummel” and Professor Hammerschmidt−Hummel’s reply “The most important subject that can possibly be,” as I had studied […]
The Parody of “Parody as Cultural Memory in Richard Powers’s Galatea 2.2”: A Response to Anca Rosu Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Richard Powers’s 1995 novel Galatea 2.2 is, among other things, a latter−day version of the Pygmalion myth. As such, Anca Rosu chooses […]
A Response to Frank J. Kearful Bonnie Costello Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Frank Kearful’s essay, “Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Prodigal’ as a Sympathetic Parody” provides the best close reading of the poem to date, explicating the peculiar deviations within the double sonnet form, and flushing out the subtleties of […]
Parody—and Self-Parody in David Mamet Maurice Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Parody is a form of imitation for satirical purposes. The parodist ridicules or mocks the object of his parody. But the parodist usually has a sneaking affection for what he is parodying: an old style that has […]
“Across the pale parabola of Joy”: Wodehouse Parodist Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) In his stories and novels Wodehouse never comments on his technique but, fortunately, in his letters to Bill Townend, the author friend who first introduced him to Stanley Featherstonaugh Ukridge, he does drop some […]
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