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Rebekka Fritz, Inge Leimberg and Nina Sandmeier – “A kind of musical conversation”: Britten and Crozier’s Let’s Make an Opera!

“A kind of musical conversation”1): Britten and Crozier’s Let’s Make an Opera! Rebekka Fritz and Inge Leimberg and Nina Sandmeier Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) [Editorial Note: Due to copyright reasons the sheet music of the musical examples has to be omitted from the online version of the article.] […]

Rajeev S. Patke – “He do the Police in Different Voices”: A Bakhtinian Take on Conversational Modes in some Modern British Poets

“He do the Police in Different Voices”70): A Bakhtinian Take on Conversational Modes in some Modern British Poets Rajeev S. Patke Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) “I am disappointed if a scene is carried through in the voice of the author rather than the voices of the characters.” Ivy […]

Maurice Charney – Robert Frost’s Conversational Style

Robert Frost’s Conversational Style Maurice Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Robert Frost would seem to be the ideal poet for this year’s Connotations topic: “The Poetics of Conversation in 20th−Century Literature.” Frost has written many poems with speakers engaged in conversation like “The Death of the Hired Man” […]

Lothar Hönnighausen – Conversation and the Poetics of Modernism

Conversation and the Poetics of Modernism Lothar Hönnighausen – Conversation and the Poetics of Modernism Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Poetry as a literary genre encompasses many modes but conversational poetry or conversation in poetry is not what comes first to mind when one tries to define the essence […]

Cecile Sandten – Blended Identity: Culture and Language Variations in Sujata Bhatt’s “The Hole in the Wind”

Blended Identity: Culture and Language Variations in Sujata Bhatt’s “The Hole in the Wind” Cecile Sandten Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) Does the blending and fusion of cultures depend on dislocation, loss of communal memories, and individual alienation? As it seems to me, Sujata Bhatt’s long prose poem “The […]

Susan E. James – Wuthering Heights for Children: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

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 old145) when Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847, shocking critics, the public and her sister, Charlotte. In 1910, sixty−three […]