“Mundane Things”: Response to Neil Browne Michael Anesko Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Neil Browne’s essay, “The Aesthetic Economy of The Rise of Silas Lapham,” asserts that the most ordinary things serve as the book’s most crucial elements—what he calls “pivot points” (1)—that shape not merely the novel’s plot […]
On Superstition and Prejudice in the Beginning of Silas Marner John H. Mazaheri Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) In the opening of Silas Marner, the narrator uses the term “superstition,” illustrates several kinds of it, and presents its damaging effects. His conception of superstition and the way his criticism […]
A Question of Competence: The Card Game in Pope’s Rape of the Lock. A Response to Oliver R. Baker Kathryn Walls Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Oliver R. Baker claims that previous commentators have failed to provide sufficiently comprehensive glosses on the game of Ombre as described in The […]
The Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory33) Sean R. Silver Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) When I teach Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, I generally spend an entire class on the game of cards. Early in the third canto the Baron and Belinda […]
From Scotland to the Holy Land: Renegotiating Scottish Identity in the Pilgrim Narrative of William Lithgow Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) I. An Unlikely Pilgrim That an early modern Presbyterian Scot deeply distrustful of Catholics and Papist practices and highly suspicious of the […]
More Hot Air: A Large and Serious Response to Tom MacFaul Thomas Herron Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Let Poets feed on aire, or what they will; Let me feed full, till that I fart, sayes Jill. (Herrick 216−17) Literary criticism has long been divided between privileging (and attempting […]
… To Say Nothing of Frogs and Angels: A Response to Tom MacFaul Bruce Boehrer Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Tom MacFaul offers a persuasive account of the English mock−epic tradition’s emergence out of Spenser’s, Jonson’s, and Davenant’s early experiments with the form. Rather than contesting this narrative, I […]
Written Sounds and Spoken Letters: Orality and Literacy in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Bärbel Höttges Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) Ever since its publication, the narrative structure of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987) has been a popular topic of critical debate. In view of the novel’s complex architecture, this pronounced […]
About Lew Welch Aram Saroyan Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) I’m very smart, and over−educated, and so on, but you know—and I can make all kinds of points about that kinda shit—but what I really would like to do is—wouldn’t it be wonderful to write a song or a […]
Ghosts, Knowledge and Truth in Atwood: A Reader’s Guide to Six Responses Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 19.1-3 (2009/10) I have been delighted and enlightened by the six responses to “The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace.” The aim of the present reply is […]
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