Brontë and Burnett: A Response to Susan E. James Lisa Tyler Published in Connotations Vol. 12.1 (2002/03) Abstract Lisa Tyler responds to Susan E. James’ comparison of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (published in Connotations 10.1) by elaborating and supporting James’ arguments. She goes […]
Catholic Shakespeare? A Response to Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel E. A. J. Honigmann Published in Connotations Vol. 12.1 (2002/03) Abstract E. A. J. Honigmann critiques the claim of Shakespeare being Catholic brought forward in Hildegard Hummel-Hammerschimdt’s biography of the playwright. He revisits the indications for such readings and assents that the complicated […]
“If we offend, it is with our good will”: Staging Dissent in A Midsummer Night’s Dream David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 12.1 (2002/03) Abstract Shakeshare could offend the Elizabethan society, repeatedly subjecting prevailing ideologies, allegiances, and practices to multiple perspectives and valuations. He invites controversy even when he seems […]
Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal” as a Sympathetic Parody Frank J. Kearful Published in Connotations Vol. 12.1 (2002/03) Abstract Frank J. Kearful shows how in “The Prodigal” Elisabeth Bishop’s formal high jinks and her secular parody of the biblical parable join forces to fashion an askew, unsentimental representation of herself as […]
Spenser’s Parody Donald Cheney Published in Connotations Vol. 12.1 (2002/03) Abstract If parody at its outermost limits is simply a borrowing or imitation of an earlier work with evident variation which may be more or less mocking, it seems to be another word for that complex of “revisionary ratios” that […]
Conversation, Poetics, and the ‘Found Poem’: A Response to Neal R. Norrick John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) 1. Low and Rustic Norrick emphasizes the literariness of conversation rather than the fidelity of literature to “true conversation” (244) and asks for “a good description of everyday talk” (243). […]
Conversation and Poetics: A Response to Neal R. Norrick Peter K. W. Tan Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) Dear visitor, articles in the HTML format (for easy viewing in your browser) will be provided in the course of the next weeks. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Until then, […]
Comment on Neal R. Norrick, “Poetics and Conversation” Maurice Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) I was fortunate enough to hear Neal Norrick’s talk at the Gleimhaus in August of 2001, and now it is with renewed pleasure that I read the written version in Connotations. It is very […]
A Response to Neal R. Norrick Ronald Carter Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) Neal Norricks’ paper provides a lucid and convincing account of the extent to which ordinary language is far from ordinary and of how what is conventionally seen as literary language pervades many everyday language events. His […]
“Invisible Bullets”: Unseen Potential in Stephen Greenblatt’s New Historicism Mark Derdzinski Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) In Shakespearean Negotiations, Stephen Greenblatt develops a praxis of literary analysis that attempts to rediscover literary texts as both the reflection and the creation of a given historical context. His intention, clearly, is […]
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