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Ursula Brumm – Another View on The Turn of the Screw

Another View on The Turn of the Screw Ursula Brumm Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) Professor Edward Lobb in his essay “The Turn of the Screw, King Lear, and Tragedy” has drawn attention to a striking similarity between Henry James’s story and Shakespeare’s tragedy by pointing to “six ‘nothings’ […]

Hannah K. Charney – ‘Weisst du noch, dass ich sang?’ Conversation in Celan’s Poetry

‘Weisst du noch, dass ich sang?’ Conversation in Celan’s Poetry Hannah K. Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) “The poem becomes conversation—often desperate conversation,” Paul Celan said in his “Meridian” Speech in 1960.94) This statement is as important as it seems paradoxical. Celan’s poetic language seems far removed indeed […]

Dennis Sobolev – Hopkins’s Portraits of the Artist: Between the Biographical and the Ideological

Hopkins’s Portraits of the Artist: Between the Biographical and the Ideological Dennis Sobolev Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Hopkins’s letters written in the Dublin period131) testify that in the last years of his life he suffered from anaemia and periods of deep depression verging on madness.132) Different and heterogeneous […]

Sandro Jung – The Visuality of Personification in Richard Savage’s The Wanderer: A Vision

The Visuality of Personification in Richard Savage’s The Wanderer: A Vision152) Sandro Jung Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Richard Savage’s masterpiece, The Wanderer: A Vision,153) has hardly received any critical attention.154) Published in 1729, it is a poem that is innovative and in many respects unconventional in an age […]

Jonathan Nauman – Vaughan and Divine Inspiration: A Reply to Donald Dickson

Vaughan and Divine Inspiration: A Reply to Donald Dickson Jonathan Nauman Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Donald Dickson’s recent examination of agency in Henry Vaughan’s sacred poetry attempts with unusual straightforwardness to explore what Vaughan meant when he claimed to have “copied”his verses under the force of divine inspiration. […]