Spenser’s Monsters: A Response to Maik Goth John Watkins Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) Maik Goth’s essay “Spenser as Prometheus: The Monstrous and the Idea of Poetic Creation” argues that Spenser associated poetic creation in general, and his own craftsmanship in particular, with monstrosity and an open defiance of […]
Spenser as Prometheus: A Response to Maik Goth Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) I enjoyed Maik Goth’s thoughtful piece on Spenser as Prometheus. Goth explored the representation of monstrous creations in The Faerie Queene in terms of Sir Philip Sidney’s characterisation of the poet as a “maker” […]
Unlived Lives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love16) Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) 1. Introduction In Alice Munro’s short story “Walker Brothers Cowboy,” a travelling salesman takes his two children on a sales tour in rural Ontario. When […]
The Change in Hemingway’s Literary Style in the 1930s: A Response to Silvia Ammary Kurt Müller Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) Silvia Ammary’s article is a valuable contribution to the critical debate about Hemingway’s highly self−reflexive portrait of the artist as a failure. It aptly grasps the nostalgic tone […]
“The road to happiness”: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park Angelika Zirker Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) At first glance, Jane Austen’s novels seem to be fairly similar: at the end, after many trials and tribulations, the heroine finds the husband who suits her perfectly, according to the plot structure of […]
Artists as Parents in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book and Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice June Sturrock Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) Near the beginning of her long career as a novelist and critic, A. S. Byatt published Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965), […]
Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion and “Lady Southwell’s Letter” Donat Gallagher Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) In the “Author’s Note” to the first edition of Edmund Campion: A Biography,92) Evelyn Waugh wrote: “Father Watts of Stonyhurst lent me a copy of Lady Southwell’s letter, preserved in the library there, describing […]
Whose are those ‘Western eyes’? On the Identity, the Role and the Functions of the Narrator in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) “In a very real sense, one cannot read this novel unless one has read it be-fore.” (Berthoud, “Anxiety” 6) Introduction […]
An Addendum to “A Question of Competence: The Card Game in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock” Kathryn Walls Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) There is a misleading sentence in my response to Oliver S. Baker: “As Baker reads it, then, the diamonds of iii.79 are the Baron’s victorious […]
The Audiences of Three English Medieval Visions: A Response to Fritz Kemmler Courtnay Konshuh Published in Connotations Vol. 20.1 (2010/11) Medieval visions have the explicit purpose of teaching their audience both the importance of salvation, and also a means by which to achieve this. In his article, Fritz Kemmler looks […]
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