Latest articles
- A Response to Franziska Quabeck: "The Yellow Leaf: Age and the Gothic in Dickens"
Robert L. Patten
Vol. 33, 328-332.
- Herbert and Gerson Reconsidered: Mystical Music and the Conciliarist Strain of Natural Law in “Providence”1
Angela Balla
Vol. 33, 285-327.
- The Providential Rose: Herbert’s Full Cosmos and Fellowship of Creatures
Paul Dyck
Vol. 33, 259-284.
- “Vancouver Walking”: Contemporary Canadian Urban Poetry
Cecile Sandten
Vol. 33, 226-258.
For a longer list of recent articles, together with their abstracts, go to Latest Additions.
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- December 2024 – George MacDonald’s (1824-1905) 200th Birthday - December 2024— Growing Younger with George MacDonald (1824-1905) by Amanda B. Vernon This month marks the 200th birthday of the Scottish writer, theologian and literary scholar George MacDonald (1824-1905). All birthdays bring with them the (welcome or unwelcome) opportunity to reflect on the idea of growing older. In the case of MacDonald, though, it seems more fitting to reflect on the idea of growing younger. Amongst the many roles MacDonald performed during his career (including that of Congregationalist minister, novelist, literary scholar, and editor), he is perhaps best known as a children’s writer. His children’s fantasy novels like… Continue Reading
- Join the Literary Advent Calendar 2024: Festive Music! - Our department's yearly advent calendar will return to the Connotations website with the theme “Festive Music”. If you enjoy reading literary texts aloud and would like to be featured in our calendar, you can submit a recording to capucine-marie.blanc@uni-tuebingen.de by November 24th. Select your own excerpt on this topic from your favourite piece or ask the team for suggestions! For further information, you can download the flyer. Continue Reading
- October 2024 – Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) – 100th Anniversary of Her Death - by Angelika Zirker I had every opportunity for knowing her well, at least. We were born on the same day, we learned to toddle about together, we began our earliest observations of the world we live in at the same period, we made the same mental remarks on people and things, and reserved to ourselves exactly the same period, we made the same mental remarks on people and things, and reserved to ourselves exactly the same rights of private personal opinion. I have not the remotest idea of what she looked like. She belonged to an era when photography was… Continue Reading
- July 2024 – A Passage to India at One Hundred: Rereading the Trial Scene - by Francesca Pierini (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh) A Passage to India, E.M. Forster’s best-known novel, portrays the relations between the British colonial elite and the local community in a fictitious Indian town. When a young British woman accuses a local doctor of attempted rape, all latent conflicts precipitate. These are captured in the climactic trial scene that this short essay briefly revisits. In Culture and Imperialism (1993), Edward Said points out that the historical moment occupied by E. M. Forster is of special importance in the history of Western imperial consciousness: Modernism is the time in which the… Continue Reading