Henry James’s Double-Bind: Chasing Possibilities in “The Jolly Corner” Elena Anastasaki Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract “If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American”1); Henry James’s powerful statement is more than just a witty phrase. The subject of alternative lives fascinated him […]
Secrets Not Revealed: Possible Stories in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White44) Philipp Erchinger Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract Right from the start of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, the novel’s fictional editor Walter Hartright introduces the “Law” as an operative framework for the whole text, a […]
Roads-Not-Taken, Taken by the Adapter: The Case of Biblical Samson57) David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract In this essay David Fishelov argues that adaptations of a literary work bring to light roads−not−taken (but suggested) by the initiating text. To demonstrate the argument he presents three adaptations of […]
State super vias, et videte, et interrogate de viis antiquis que sit bona, et ambulate in ea Jörg O. Fichte Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) Abstract The road taken, although the right one judged by human logic, often turns out to be the road to perdition, whereas the road […]
Roads Not Taken Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/09) The introductory article to the topic of the 10th International Connotations Symposium is only available as PDF.
Maintaining Plurality: A Response to Susan Ang Annegret Maack Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) Ang’s complex and comprehensive interpretation of Ackroyd’s English Music takes as its starting point the year 1922 when Timothy as a boy assisted in his father’s public performances. She interprets this as a reference to […]
The Phenomenology of Deep Surprise in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Michael Mendelson Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) On the one hand, we can think of surprise as a premonition of significance. I am surprised because some new idea or experience unexpectedly promises to be meaningful. I may not know […]
Response to “Alice was not surprised” Jean-Jacques Lecercle Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) I entirely agree with the opening and closing remarks of Angelika Zirker’s article: “Alice often is not surprised although things happen that might be regarded as ‘unexpected'” (19) and “[i]n Alice, Carroll shows that being surprised […]
(Un)Surprisingly Natural: A Response to Angelika Zirker Jennifer Geer Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) Surprise is an integral part of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, and Angelika Zirker’s analysis of “what is surprising to [Alice] and what is not” (19) is an insightful one. After all, even the title of […]
Emerson and Milton: Allusion and Theodicy Richard F. Hardin Published in Connotations Vol. 17.2-3 (2007/08) In Frances M. Malpezzi’s explication, richly evocative of Milton’s presence in Emerson’s poem, I acquired a new appreciation of the American poet. As a newcomer to “Uriel,” but a veteran Milton reader, I found the […]
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