John Lyly’s Poetic Economy Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 22.1 (2012/13) John Lyly’s Euphues—an inventive, imaginative, provocative, allusive, and learned literary investment first published in 1578—is, for Leah Scragg, “a literary phenomenon” (1) that went through an unprecendented 17 editions by 1638. No other work of imaginative prose […]
Untold and Unlived Lives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Rebecca Suter Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) In his article on “Unlived Lives,” Burkhard Niederhoff examines the trope of the “unlived life” in two rather different works of literature, namely Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel […]
Telling the Difference: Clones, Doubles and What’s in Between2) Amit Marcus Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) 1. Introduction A common opinion is that clones are a particular type of doubles, and that both clones and doubles are replicas, copies, or imitations of an original human being. For want of […]
Tragedy and Soap: Orton’s Good and Faithful Servant Simon Shepherd Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) In his essay on Orton’s Good and Faithful Servant Maurice Charney argues that it is, for Orton, a strange sort of play.3) He calls it a “Laodicean tragedy,” on the grounds that “there is […]
The Family Reunion: Eliot, James, and the Buried Life: A Response to Edward Lobb Miriam M. Chirico Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) One associates T. S. Eliot with his poetry far more than one remembers him as a playwright. This general lack of approbation makes it all the more […]
“As I have heard Jeeves put it”: A Response to Lawrence Dugan’s “Worcestershirewards: Wodehouse and the Baroque” Laura Mooneyham White Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Lawrence Dugan’s very interesting attempt to draw a clear line between P. G. Wodehouse’s achievement in the first−person narratives of Bertie Wooster and in […]
On the Shore of Interpretation: The Theory and Reading of the Image in Imagism Andrew Hay Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) All seeing is essentially perspective, and so is all knowing. (Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals 255) […] in−itself the image is matter: not something hidden behind the image, […]
Re-reading Gulliver as Quixote: Toward a Theory a Quixotic Exceptionalism Aaron R. Hanlon Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) In 1726, the year in which Gulliver’s Travels was published, Craftsman editor Nicholas Amhurst was among the first to compare Gulliver’s Travels with Don Quixote. Amhurst hinted at the relationship between […]
The Homosexual Temptation of the Son in Milton’s Paradise Regained: A Reply to John T. Shawcross and Claude J. Summers David V. Urban Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) In “Milton’s Paradise Regain’d and the Second Temptation,” John T. Shawcross engages Claude J. Summers’s discussion of the “homosexual implications” of […]
Literary Allusions and Poetic Economy: Billy Collins’s “Albany” and William Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud Judith Saunders Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) A versatile and variform literary device, allusion serves a wide range of purposes in imaginative writing. As part of his 2007 historical analysis of allusion […]
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