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Connotations wants to encourage scholarly communication in the field of English Literature (from the Middle English period to the present). It is an international, refereed journal which focuses on the semantic and stylistic energy of the language of literature in a historical perspective and aims to represent different approaches.
Each issue consists of articles and a forum for discussion. The forum presents, for instance, research in progress, critical hypotheses, responses to articles (published in Connotations or elsewhere) as well as to recent books.
Contributions will be published within five months after submission so that discussion can begin without delay.
Connotations is published three times a year by the Connotations Society and by Waxmann Verlag Münster / New York. All contributions are also made freely available one this website. Contributions should be forwarded to the Editors by e-mail.
Connotations is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Contributions are indexed, for example, in the MLA Bibliography, the World Shakespeare Bibliography and the IBZ/IBR.
Latest Additions
The redesign of this webpage has entered the stage of filling the pages with the html-text versions of the journal's articles. To make it easier for our readers to keep track of the newly completed debates, you can find a list of the latest additions (usually about the last week) in the box below. Please keep in mind that all the articles on the web site already are available as PDF files from their seperate article pages. You can find them through the tables of content of the journal's issues or their debates.
28.06.2011
The archive is complete, all articles are now available online free of charge.
25.06.2011
- Sypher, F. J. "Christmas as Humbug: A Manuscript Poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon ('L. E. L.')." Connotations 3.2 (1992): 193-203.
- Leimberg, Inge. "The Myth of the Self in Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Traherne's 'Thanksgivings': A Hypothesis". Connotations 5.2-3 (1995/96): 167-86.
- Fritz, Rebekka, Inge Leimberg, and Nina Sandmeier. "'A kind of musical conversation': Britten and Crozier's Let's Make an Opera!." Connotations 10.2-3 (2000/2001): 175-206.
- Kullmann, Thomas. "Conversational Echoes in Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes (1989)." Connotations 10.2-3 (2000/2001): 207-23.
- Leimberg, Inge. "Echo Restored: A Reading of George Herbert's 'Heaven'." Connotations 16.1-3 (2006/2007): 11-25.
24.06.2011
- Collmer, Robert G. "A Collection of Toothpicks from The Winter's Tale to Leviathan." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 13-25.
- Bergvall, Åke. "Of Mountains and Men: Vision and Memory in Wordsworth and Petrarch." Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 44-57.
- Leimberg, Inge. "The Place Revisited in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets." Connotations 8.1 (1998/99): 63-92.
- Baker, Oliver R. "Pope's Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock." Connotations 17.2-3 (2007/2008): 210-37.
23.06.2011
22.06.2011
- Randall, Dale B.J. "The Head and the Hands on the Rostra: Marcus Tullius Cicero as a Sign of Its Time." Connotations 1.1 (1991): 34-54.
- Salomon, Brownell. "The 'Doubleness' of The Malcontent and Fairy-tale Form." Connotations 1.2 (1991): 150-63.
- Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Arthur Golding and the Elizabethan Progress of Actaeon's Dogs." Connotations 1.3 (1991): 207-23.
- Rosen, Alan. "Plague, Fire, and Typology in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year." Connotations 1.3 (1991): 244-57.
- Davidson, Clifford. "Reflections in Response to Sandra Billington, Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance Drama." Connotations 2.2 (1992): 166-71.
- Watters, John G. "The Control Machine: Myth in The Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs." Connotations 6.3 (1996/97): 284-303.
- Kinney, Arthur F. "Unscrambling Surprises." Connotations 15.1-3 (2005/2006): 17-29.
- MacFaul, Tom. "The Butterfly, the Fart and the Dwarf: The Origins of the English Laureate Micro-Epic." Connotations 17.2-3 (2007/2008): 144-64.
21.06.2011
- Bergvall, Åke. "Reason in English Renaissance Humanism: Starkey, More, and Ascham." Connotations 3.3 (1993/94): 213-25.
- Kullmann, Thomas "Chivalry and Courtesy: A Comment on Richard McCoy, The Rites of Knighthood." Connotations 3.3 (1993/94): 291-302.
- Mayer, Ruth. "Mythfying Africa." Connotations 5.2-3 (1995/96): 187-207.
- Bauer, Matthias. "The Language of Dogs: Mythos and Logos in Emily Dickinson". Connotations 5.2-3 (1995/96): 208-27.
- Rosu, Anca. "Noble Imagery: Wallace Stevens and Mesoamerican Mythology". Connotations 5.2-3 (1995/96): 240-58.
20.06.2011
- Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Melting Earth and Leaping Bulls: Shakespeare's Ovid and Arthur Golding." Connotations 4.3 (1994/5): 192-206.
- Gatta, John. "Calvinism Feminized: Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe". Connotations 5.2-3 (1995/96): 147-66.
17.06.2011
16.06.2011
- Bauer, Matthias. "Herbert's Titles, Commonplace Books, and the Poetics of Use: A Response to Anne Ferry." Connotations 4.3 (1994/95): 266-79.
- DiMatteo, Anthony. "Hamlet: Reconstructing a Lost Code of Meaning". Connotations 6.2 (1996/97): 158-79.
- Lang-Graumann, Christiane. "Gerard Manley Hopkins Revisiting Binsey." Connotations 8.1 (1998/99): 48-62.
15.06.2011
12.06.2011
- Daniel, Clay. "Crucifixion Imagery in Paradise Lost" Connotations 8.2 (1998/99): 153-74.
- Patke, Rajeev. "'He do the Police in Different Voices': A Bakhtinian Take on Conversational Modes in some Modern British Poets." Connotations 10.2-3 (2000/2001): 160-74.
- Demaubus, Thierry. "'Momentary visions of permanence' in the Stuart Masque or the Eloquence of Speech through Picture." Connotations 10.2-3 (2000/2001): 268-86.
- Charney, Hanna K. "'Weisst du noch, dass ich sang?' Conversation in Celan's Poetry." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002): 29-41.
- Morgan, Val. "Camusian Revolt and the Making of Character: Falconbridge in Shakespeare's King John." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 146-65.
11.06.2011
- Budra, Paul. "Doctor Faustus: Death of a Bibliophile." Connotations 1.1 (1991): 1-11.
- Wiesenfarth, Joseph. "The Art of Fiction and the Art of War: Henry James, H. G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford." Connotations 1.1 (1991): 55-73.
- Versluis, Arthur. "Piers Plowman, Numerical Composition, and the Prophecies." Connotations 1.2 (1991): 103-39.
- Battenhouse, Roy. "Religion in King John: Shakespeare's View." Connotations 1.2 (1991): 140-49.
- Sams, Eric. "'If you have tears ...': Oxford and Onions" Connotations 1.2 (1991): 181-86.
- Battenhouse, Roy. "On Puzzling Shakespeare by Leah Marcus." Connotations 1.2 (1991): 197-203.
10.06.2011
- Jung, Sandro. "Some Notes on the 'Single Sentiment and Romanticism of Charlotte Smith'." Connotations 9.3 (1999/2000): 269-84.
- Lobb, Edward. "The Turn of the Screw, King Lear, and Tragedy." Connotations 10.1 (2000/2001): 31-46.
- Wong, Lisa. "(Un)tying a Firm Knot of Ideas: Reading Yang Mu's The Skeptic." Connotations 12.2-3 (2002/2003): 292-306.
- Peterfy, Margit. "'These things astonish me beyond words': Wordplay in William Carlos Williams's Poetry." Connotations 14.1-3 (2004/2005): 87-108.
- Goth, Maik. "John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure: An Aesthetics of Textual Surprise." Connotations 14.1-3 (2004/2005): 135-61.
09.06.2011
- Robertson, Lynne M. "Getting A Head In A Warrior Culture: Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Problem of Identity." Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 33-43.
- Knönagel, Axel. "The Search for F. P. Greve/Grove: From First Doubts to a Greve Biography." Connotations 7.2 (1997/98): 246-53.
- Černý, Lothar. "Dickens' A Christmas Carol: Revisiting and Reformation." Connotations 7.3 (1997/98): 255-72.
- Morris, Paul D. "Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry: Reading the Critical Reception of Nabokovs Poetry and 'The Poem' and 'Restoration'." Connotations 15.1-3 (2005/2006): 30-57.
- Bimberg, Christiane. "Perversions and Reversals of Childhood and Old Age in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron." Connotations 15.1-3 (2005/2006): 58-91.
- Williams-Wanquet, Eileen. "Anti-novel as Ethics: Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita." Connotations 15.1-3 (2005/2006): 200-14.
08.06.2011
- Bimberg, Christiane. "The Poetics of Conversation in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002): 1-28.
- Leimberg, Inge. "Shakespeare De-witched: A Response to Stephen Greenblatt." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002): 60-77.
- Lindner, Christoph. "Conrad, Capitalism, and Decay." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002): 98-115.
- Egan, Gabriel. "Gilding Loam and Painting Lilies: Shakespeare's Scruple of Gold." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 165-79.
07.06.2011