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Literary Anthologies: A Case Study for Metacognitively Approaching Canonicity

Literary Anthologies: A Case Study for Metacognitively Approaching Canonicity1 William E. Engel Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract Anthologies promote and perpetuate what amounts to a canon. The roots run deep in the Western tradition, with the Anthologia Graeca, a collection of Classical and Byzantine Greek literature modelled on […]

The Yellow Leaf: Age and the Gothic in Dickens

The Yellow Leaf: Age and the Gothic in Dickens Franziska Quabeck Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract Dickens was a fashionable writer, and from what we know he was also a very fashionable person, but the use of the colour yellow in his works differs surprisingly from the fashion […]

Katherine Calloway – A Particular Trust: George Herbert and Epicureanism

A Particular Trust: George Herbert and Epicureanism Katherine Calloway Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract This article explores George Herbert’s engagement with Epicureanism, and Lucretius in particular, with Donne and Bacon serving as important intermediaries. While differing on questions about divine care for the world and eternal resurrection, Lucretius […]

Thomas Kullmann – Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the (Re-)Invention of Tragedy: A Response to Angelika Zirker and Susanne Riecker

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the (Re-)Invention of Tragedy: A Response to Angelika Zirker and Susanne Riecker Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract In their contribution, Zirker and Riecker provide a comprehensive survey of how Shakespeare used his sources, especially Plutarch’s Life of Caesar and Life of Brutus, […]

John D. Cox – Historical Fetters and Creative Liberation in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Response to Angelika Zirker and Susanne Riecker

Historical Fetters and Creative Liberation in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Response to Angelika Zirker and Susanne Riecker John D. Cox Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract The authors describe Shakespeare’s double tragedy of Julius Caesar and of Brutus as a creative liberation from the constraints imposed by a historical […]

Georges Letissier – “The prismatic hues of memory” (DC 769): Visual Story-Telling and Chromatic Showmanship in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield

“The prismatic hues of memory” (DC 769): Visual Story-Telling and Chromatic Showmanship in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield Georges Letissier Published in Connotations Vol. 32 (2023) Abstract What if the memory of colour was an integral part of the act of story-telling? David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’s “favourite child,” illustrates the author’s […]