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 […]
Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) 1. Introduction The Importance of Being Earnest is an accomplished parody of the conventions of comedy. It also contains numerous examples of Oscar Wilde’s most characteristic stylistic device: the paradox. The present […]
Falstaff’s Vocation: A Response to Arthur F. Kinney David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Arthur F. Kinney has written a masterful essay, well−argued and researched.26) He contends that Falstaff so abuses language that he loses touch with his audience both on and off the stage and ends up […]
Parody, Sympathy and Self. A Response to Donald Cheney Richard A. McCabe Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) In his seminal essay on parody Mikhail Bakhtin asserted that “the literary and artistic consciousness of the Romans could not imagine a serious form without its comic equivalent. The serious, straightforward form […]
Highways and Byways: A Response to Donald Cheney Anthony Esolen Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Professor Donald Cheney has done lovers of literature a kindness. He has coined the term “sympathetic parody” to describe how Edmund Spenser replays, in The Faerie Queene, the plots and aims of Ariosto’s Orlando […]
(Un)tying a Firm Knot of Ideas: Reading Yang Mu’s The Skeptic Lisa Wong Published in Connotations Vol. 12.2-3 (2002/03) Abstract Yang Mu’s Yi Shen (The Skeptic: Notes on Poetical Discrepancies) evoked widely varying responses in the East and the West. Upon its publication in China, it was lauded by critics […]
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