On the Notion of the Counter-Flâneur: A Response to Cecile Sandten Eva Ries Published in Connotations Vol. 35 (2026) Abstract This essay responds to Cecile Sandten’s article “‘Vancouver Walking’: Contemporary Canadian Urban Poetry” and critically examines the concept of the “counter-flâneur.” Sandten adopts it from Isabel Carrera-Suarez, defines it in […]
Strange Case of Stevenson and Unseen Collaborators: “A Chapter on Dreams” as a Textual Double of Jekyll and Hyde Gero Guttzeit Published in Connotations Vol. 35 (2026) Abstract Robert Louis Stevenson’s essay “A Chapter on Dreams” is his most prominent discussion of how his 1886 novella, Strange Case of Dr […]
Rilke, Richter, and Wallace Stevens’s “Chaos” Clay Daniel Published in Connotations Vol. 35 (2026) Abstract One of the puzzles of Wallace Stevens’s “Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion” is how Ludwig Richter could unleash the articulate “brutality” of some of Stevens’s “harshest lines” (Helen Vendler). Much of the poem’s […]
A Footnote to Lesley Graham “‘Scott’s Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht’ and Intertextual Transmission” Richard Dury Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract This note offers further examples of Stevenson’s awareness of disappearing Scottish culture and his desire to record examples of it in another remote area of the country. […]
For a More Comprehensive Approach: A Response to Thomas Kullmann’s “Anthologizing Shakespeare’s Sonnets” Roland Weidle Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract Responding to Thomas Kullmann’s model of communicative modes to explain the popularity of why some of Shakespeare’s sonnets have been preferred over others in anthologies, this article proposes […]
Approaching Canonicity through a Digital Inventory of Exempla: A Response to William E. Engel Grant Williams Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract My response offers an alternative to Engel’s metacognitive view by exploring how the rhetorical device of the exemplum illuminates the problem of canonicity. The pitfall of canonicity […]
From Illustration to Meme: The Pictorial Representation of Duality in Editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Wolfgang G. Müller Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract This essay investigates illustrations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), […]
Liminality, Art, and Murder in Paula Hawkins’s The Blue Hour Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract Best known for her highly successful first novel The Girl on the Train (2015), Paula Hawkins returns in The Blue Hour (2024), after a Gothic novella titled Blind Spot (2022), […]
Othello in the South Seas: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Beach of Falesá” as Shakespearean Rewriting Lucio De Capitani Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract This article reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific novella “The Beach of Falesá” (1892) as a rewriting of Shakespeare’s Othello. There are, in fact, several clues […]
One More Time: Stevenson’s “Across the Plains” and the Genre of Trans-American Travel Caroline McCracken-Flesher Published in Connotations Vol. 34 (2025) Abstract In 1879 Robert Louis Stevenson set out from Scotland and then travelled across America on the emigrant train. The narrative of his sea voyage troubled the sensibilities of […]
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