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 […]
Pinter’s Fractured Discourse in The Homecoming Maurice Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Pinter liked to play the role of deist dramatist, who set his characters out on stage and let them pursue their autonomous destinies.9) As he wrote to Peter Wood, the director of The Birthday Party, in […]
Elegance and Poetic Economy in John Crowe Ransom and F. T. Prince Rajeev S. Patke Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) In this essay I take up the notion of poetic elegance as a specific instance of the general idea of poetic economy. The kind of elegance I have in […]
“Mistah Kurtz—he dead” in Company: Redundancy and Ellipsis William Harmon Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Let me start with five texts that have a good deal in common and try to proceed inductively to arrive at some general observations about poetic economy. The choice of this material was prompted […]
Leaps and Bounds: Hawthorne’s Strategies of Poetic Economy Elena Anastasaki Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is […]
In Their Own Words: On Writing in Second Person Joshua Parker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Some fifteen thousand years ago, when a painter at Lascaux or at Trois−Frères took brush to cave wall, it was with the consciousness of designing images not only for himself, but, we today […]
Poetic Economy: Ellipsis and Redundancy in Literature Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2-3 (2011/12) Poets and writers, artists in general, have time and again given evidence of their desire to get things right. The careful attention they pay to processes of revision, for example, may show that they want […]
The Ethics of Otherness in Ian McEwan’s Saturday Tammy Amiel-Houser Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Since the 1980s, Ian McEwan’s literary oeuvre has displayed a growing concern with the relation between literature and ethics, becoming progressively more involved with public and historical issues, and turning attention to the moral […]
Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield’s Voice and Zen Meditation: A Letter in Response to Ling Chung Jane Hirshfield Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Dear Ling Chung, I am deeply moved by the profound attentiveness you have brought to my poems’ words, and to my practice understanding, in your essay. […]
Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield’s Voice and Zen Meditation Ling Chung Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Like many American poets since the rise of Imagism in the 1910s, Jane Hirshfield (*1953) writes verse with concrete, vivid imagery. However, her imagery is tactfully linked to the control and the activity […]
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