Response to “Gary Snyder, Dôgen, and ‘The Canyon Wren'” Rajeev S. Patke Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996) is a collection of poems which combines an interest in Zen with a commitment to the exploration of the significance of nature for the […]
Reply to Verna A. Foster Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) I regard it as a particularly happy instance of editorial planning that the editors of Connotations have placed two papers on Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good side by side in vol. 7 (1997⁄98), as this juxtaposition highlights […]
The Uses of History in Contemporary Feminist Drama: A Response to Christiane Bimberg Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Christiane Bimberg’s interesting essay “Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good as Contributions to a […]
A Note on Music and Form in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets R. J. Schoeck Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) May I join the dialogue on T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets? I should like to offer a brief note on one aspect, or reverberation, of the form and sense […]
T. S. Eliot’s Sense of Place in Four Quartets Eleanor Cook Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) The word “place” in the Oxford English Dictionary is allotted fourteen categories under four general headings (twenty−nine under seven general headings, if special uses in phrases and hyphenated words are counted). The word […]
Are Jonson and Rabelais Elegant or Grotesque? A Response to Rocco Coronato Yumiko Yamada Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Reflecting on Rocco Coronato’s “Grotesque” reply to B. Boehrer and me, I noticed that despite our agreement on the post−Bakhtinian prejudice against Jonson and “Bakhtin’s de−classicising ‘castration’ of Rabelais,” the […]
Riddles of Procreation Eleanor Cook Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) “Of” in my title is meant in a double sense: riddles whose subject is procreation and the sense of a riddle in procreation itself. By “riddle,” I mean not so much a folk−riddle as a literary riddle, but a […]
Impertinent Matters: Lancelot Gobbo and the Fortunes of Performance Criticism Alan Rosen Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) I Shakespeare criticism and performance has vacillated considerably in its approach to minor characters, ranging in its estimation of the significance of these characters from superfluous to essential.61) A subset of these […]
Civil Journey: Mediating the Personal and the Political in the Essays of Storm Jameson Wendy Gan Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Storm Jameson is perhaps best known today as a socially committed novelist of the 1930s, interested in pioneering a “fiction of fact” (Women’s Writing in English 94). Like […]
My Career Goes Bung: Genre−Parody, Australianness and Anglophilia Sanjay Sircar Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Miles Franklin (1879−1954) entered the Australian canon with her first novel, the realist, nationalist, feminist−”revisioning,” autobiographically−based first−person My Brilliant Career (Career; 1901, filmed 1979). She followed it with neglected experimental metafictive novels whose heroines […]
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