“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.1) 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 Crusoe36),”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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
“Catholic Shakespeare?” A Letter in Response to Thomas Merriam E. A. J. Honigmann Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) T. Merriam writes that “Honigmann states incorrectly in ‘Catholic Shakespeare?’ that William was baptised during the reign of Queen Mary. He was born in 1564 during the reign of Elizabeth” (Merriam […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.68) My specific concern in this article is the contrast between the rational philosophy put […]
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