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Nicole A. Diederich – Telling Differences: Complicating, Challenging, and Expanding Amit Marcus’s Discussion of Clones and Doubles

Telling Differences: Complicating, Challenging, and Expanding Amit Marcus’s Discussion of Clones and Doubles Nicole A. Diederich Published in Connotations Vol. 23.1 (2013/14) Amit Marcus’s “Telling Difference: Clones, Doubles and What’s in Between,” an exploration of the differences between clones and doubles in Romantic and post–Romantic fiction—most notably twentieth and twenty–first […]

Matt DelConte – The Influence of Narrative Tense in Second Person Narration: A Response to Joshua Parker

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 […]

Brian Richardson – Keeping You Unnatural: Against the Homogenization of Second Person Writing. A Response to Joshua Parker

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 […]

William E. Engel – Echoic Effects in Poe’s Poetic Double Economy——of Memory: A Response to Hannes Bergthaller and Dennis Pahl

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 […]

Sven Wagner – “Undressed—— / today’s role dangles / from a metal hanger”: Figurativity and the Economy of Means in Contemporary English Haiku

“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 […]

Charles Lock – Epigraphs and Absences: A Comment on Rajeev S. Patke’s “Ambiguity and Ethics: Fictions of Governance in Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns

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 […]

Robert Lance Snyder – “Occult Sympathy”: Geoffrey Household’s Watcher in the Shadows and Dance of the Dwarfs

“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 […]