Summertime of the Dead Whispered the Truth of His Joy: A Response to Eynel Wardi Shachar Bram Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) As a starting point to my discussion of Thomas’s “Poem in October” and Wardi’s thoughtful presentation of it, I find it necessary to distinguish three “personae” taking […]
Wuthering Heights for Children: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden Susan E. James Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) English children’s author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, was two years old1) when Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847, shocking critics, the public and her sister, Charlotte. In 1910, sixty−three […]
A Response to “Dracula and the Idea of Europe” by Eleni Coundouriotis Carol A. Senf Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) Reference: While I don’t agree with everything that Professor Coundouriotis says about Dracula in her essay, I am deeply appreciative of the fact that her reading of the novel […]
The Turn of the Screw, King Lear, and Tragedy Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) Discussion of Henry James’s Turn of the Screw remains stubbornly inconclusive, and recent criticism has turned away from traditional disagreements about the story (the question of whether the ghosts are real, for example) […]
Verse Satire: Its Form, Genre, and Mode John T. Shawcross Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) My view of genre does not allow me to classify what is often called satire as a genre; rather it is verse satire (or prose satire) that is a genre. Genre implies a form […]
The Vertue of Spectacle in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Daniel Kane Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) In Connotations 6.2, Anthony Brian Taylor provides us with an excellent reading of Lucius as “the severely flawed redeemer” in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Taylor helps the modern reader to reassess Lucius as a character […]
Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imagining Thomas Mann? Alan D. Latta Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) I Joyce Carol Oates’s widely−anthologized story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” has attracted considerable attention since its initial publication in the fall of 1966.90) Despite its relatively short length, […]
Female Histories from Australia and Canada as Counter-Discourses to the National Marion Spies Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) (1) Transnational Female Historiography This is a reply to and a continuation of the articles by Sanjay Sircar, “My Career Goes Bung: Genre−Parody, Australianness and Anglophilia” and by Barbara Korte, “Survival […]
Performing Gender and Genre in Miles Franklin’s My Career Goes Bung Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Gender and genre are issues at the heart of both My Brilliant Career and its sequel My Career Goes Bung: both novels chronicle their heroines’ rebellion against “prescribed femaleness” (Bung 447)121) […]
A Response to “Some Notes on the ‘Single Sentiment’ and Romanticism of Charlotte Smith” Monika Gomille Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) During recent years, the poems of Charlotte Turner Smith (1749−1806) have, after almost two centuries of neglect, come to be recognized as belonging to the most important poetry […]
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