Gulliver as a Novelistic, Quixotic Character? A Response to Aaron R. Hanlon David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) The economy of literary interpretation can be described as the ratio between textual details from various phonetic, syntactic and semantic levels, and explicit or implicit assumptions that we use in […]
Studying Writing in Second Person: A Response to Joshua Parker Jarmila Mildorf Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) In his article “In Their Own Words: On Writing in Second Person,” Joshua Parker reflects on second–person narration and looks at the issue from the perspective of authors who use such narration […]
The Influence of Narrative Tense in Second Person Narration: A Response to Joshua Parker Matt DelConte Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) In his recent article, “In Their Own Words: On Writing in Second Person,” Joshua Parker argues that authors employ second person narration to distance themselves from certain events […]
Keeping You Unnatural: Against the Homogenization of Second Person Writing. A Response to Joshua Parker Brian Richardson Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) I read Joshua Parker’s “In Their Own Words: On Writing in Second Person” with great interest and enjoyment. Parker deftly covers a vast swath of second person […]
Echoic Effects in Poe’s Poetic Double Economy——of Memory: A Response to Hannes Bergthaller and Dennis Pahl William E. Engel Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) The words of one of these rhapsodies I have easily borne away in memory. I was, perhaps, the more forcibly impressed with it, as he […]
Poe’s Faltering Economies: A Response to Hannes Bergthaller Dennis Pahl Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) As a writer associated with Gothic tales of terror and obsession as well as with critical essays detailing, in an almost scientific way, how he creates his poetic “effects,” Edgar Allan Poe has always […]
“Undressed—— / today’s role dangles / from a metal hanger”: Figurativity and the Economy of Means in Contemporary English Haiku Sven Wagner Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) Abstract Over the past century, North American and British haiku theorists have debated how the genre of the haiku, embedded as it […]
Epigraphs and Absences: A Comment on Rajeev S. Patke’s “Ambiguity and Ethics: Fictions of Governance in Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns” Charles Lock Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) The supplying of contexts is a basic task of literary criticism and textual interpretation. A context may be selected to demonstrate a […]
“Occult Sympathy”: Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) Drawing on the Edwardian adventure tale’s theme of hunter and hunted exemplified by John Buchan’s The Thirty–Nine Steps (1915), Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male (1939), his best–known thriller, dramatizes […]
A Letter in Response to Kenneth Muir Emma Cole Published in Connotations Vol. 22.2 (2012/13) In Kenneth Muir’s article on Edwin Muir’s work, Chorus of the Newly Dead, he raises the possibility that the timing of Humbert Wolfe’s more popular work, Requiem, may suggest that it owes some of its […]
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