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Robert Lance Snyder – “The Jungles of International Bureaucracy”: Criminality and Detection in Eric Ambler’s The Siege of the Villa Lipp

“The Jungles of International Bureaucracy”: Criminality and Detection in Eric Ambler’s The Siege of the Villa Lipp Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) Early in The Dark Frontier (1936), the first of Eric Ambler’s eighteen novels, a director of armaments manufacturer Cator & Bliss tries to recruit […]

Lawrence Dugan – Worcestershirewards: Wodehouse and the Baroque

Worcestershirewards: Wodehouse and the Baroque46) Lawrence Dugan Published in Connotations Vol. 20.2-3 (2010/11) I should define as baroque that style which deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) all its possibilities and which borders on its own parody. (Jorge Luis Borges, The Universal History of Infamy 11) Unfortunately, however, if there […]

John Watkins – Spenser’s Monsters: A Response to Maik Goth

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 […]

Andrew Hadfield – Spenser as Prometheus: A Response to Maik Goth

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” […]