Marlowe’s Edward II as “Actaeonesque History” Christopher Wessman Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) In his historical tragedy Edward II, Christopher Marlowe pervasively engages an abundant variety of ancient myths. Most significantly, however, the drama uses as a motif the versatile Diana and Actaeon tale—of naked, angry goddess and metamorphosed […]
Survival of the Nation(al)? Notes on the Case of English-Canadian Literary Criticism Barbara Korte Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In an age of ‘internationalism’ and ‘multiculturalism,’ societies have not become ‘post−national’. Current events in Central and Eastern Europe alone testify to the ongoing relevance of the ‘national’ as a […]
Representations and Transformations in the Fiction of Kojo Laing: The “Language of Authentic Being” Revisited M. E. Kropp Dakubu Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In a recent article in this journal, Francis Ngaboh−Smart presented an interpretation of Kojo Laing’s novel, Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars as a representation […]
Assessments of the Urban Experience: Toni Morrison’s Jazz and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Sylvia Mayer Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In an essay on the first four novels of Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, and Tar Baby, Susan Willis observes that the temporal […]
The Devil’s Advocate: A Response to Clay Daniel Åke Bergvall Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In Book 17 of The City of God St Augustine briefly discusses the uses and misuses of allegory as a hermeneutic tool for students of scripture. In his younger days he had been quite […]
Faulkner and the Problematics of Procreation Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) No black character in all of Faulkner’s crowded Yoknapatawpha saga receives more sustained attention than Lucas Beauchamp: his willful sense of self−esteem in a predominantly white world arouses and teaches the superficially liberal lawyer Gavin […]
Byron’s Procreative Poetry James Soderholm Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) To withdraw myself from myself (oh that cursed has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling. Lord Byron In the first canto of “Don Juan,” Byron almost reluctantly records the amorous pull that has brought […]
Poetry as Procreation: John Dryden’s Creative Concept of Poetry and Imitation139) Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) 1. Introduction According to the Oxford English Dictionary ‘to procreate’ means “to bring forth or beget, produce, cause” or “to beget, engender, generate (offspring).” ‘Procreation’ is defined as “the action of […]
Reproducing Living Organisms: Ben Jonson’s Dramaturgy of Procreation Yumiko Yamada Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) I In his Tusculan Disputations Cicero compares various kinds of human activities in relation to the future after death to the act of procreation, as something that compensates for man’s mortality: “Trees does he […]
“The Poets Deliver”: Procreation, Communication, and Incarnation in Sidney and Wordsworth Åke Bergvall Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In this talk165) I shall be discussing some central passages in Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defence of Poesie and William Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads in terms of three concepts: procreation, […]
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