Anthologizing a Chameleon Poet: An Answer to Roland Weidle Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 35 (2026) Abstract Answering to Roland Weidle’s response to my article on the presence of Shakespeare’s sonnets in anthologies, this contribution suggests that, while Jakobson’s model of communication cannot fully account for the complexities of […]
The Memoir-Novel as Revisionist History: A Response to Katrin Berndt Eleni Coundouriotis Published in Connotations Vol. 35 (2026) Abstract Katrin Berndt’s formalist analysis of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory emphasizes the text’s use of metagenre to convey the entanglement of memory with identity that shows both in constant transformation. […]
Natural Images of Death and Rebirth, and Pastoral Longing, in Milton and Herbert David V. Urban Published in Connotations Vol. 35 (2026) Abstract This essay discusses how various poems of Milton and Herbert use natural images of death and rebirth to reflect the spiritual condition of humanity. The depiction of […]
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Sire de Malétroit’s Door” and Its Intertexts Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 35 (2026) Abstract “The Sire de Malétroit’s Door” is an early story by Robert Louis Stevenson that has been neglected by literary critics. The present essay makes a case for this tale and […]
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 […]
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