Textual Surprises
“Textual Surprises” is a subject that has as many aspects as our speakers were be able to discover: they may range from more or less straightforward textual surprises (such as: moments of peripeteia and recognition or the surprising choice of a particular word or phrase, rhythm, motif, subject…) to surprises which are perhaps less obvious: they belong to the process of reading, in which sudden discoveries are made or in which the reader’s ideas are unsettled or overturned by the text.
Articles in this special issue
- Robinson Crusoe1),"The Other" and the Poetics of Surprise
David Fishelov
Connotations Vol. 14: 1-18 - "Alice was not surprised": (Un)Surprises in Lewis Carroll's Alice-Books
Angelika Zirker
Connotations Vol. 14: 19-37 - Textual, Contextual and Critical Surprises in "Désirée's Baby"2)
Teresa Gibert
Connotations Vol. 14: 38-67 - Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith's "The Sinner"
Myrtle Hooper
Connotations Vol. 14: 68-86 - "These things astonish me beyond words": Wordplay in William Carlos Williams's Poetry
Margit Peterfy
Connotations Vol. 14: 87-108 - Tender Is What Night? Surprises in the Growth of Fitzgerald's Fourth Novel
William Harmon
Connotations Vol. 14: 109-18 - The Mystery of Vladimir Nabokov's Sources: Some New Ideas on Lolita's Intertextual Links
Alexander M. Luxemburg
Connotations Vol. 14: 119-34 - John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure: An Aesthetics of Textual Surprise3)
Maik Goth
Connotations Vol. 14: 135-61 - Pivots, Reversals, and Things in the Aesthetic Economy of Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham
Neil Browne
Connotations Vol. 15: 1-16 - Unscrambling Surprises
Arthur F. Kinney
Connotations Vol. 15: 17-29 - Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry: Reading the Critical Reception of Nabokovs Poetry and "The Poem" and "Restoration"
Paul D. Morris
Connotations Vol. 15: 30-57 - Perversions and Reversals of Childhood and Old Age in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
Christiane Bimberg
Connotations Vol. 15: 58-91