Lost and Found: Textual and Intertextual Retrieval in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Exhumation Letters and the “Willowwood” Sonnets Carl Plasa Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract This article is divided into two sections, the first of which is concerned with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s letters, written between 17 December 1868 and […]
Color and Memory in David Copperfield: A Response to Georges Letissier Annette Federico Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract In his essay on memory and color in David Copperfield, Georges Letissier pays special attention to the construction of spatial memories. I build on this insight by showing how temporality […]
Kinship and the River Cam: George Herbert’s Anthropocentrism Reconsidered Sarah Crover Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract George Herbert’s devotional poetry, with its minute attention to the natural world, ought to be well suited to early modern scholars with an ecocritical bent. However, his work is frequently dismissed as […]
“It’s Exactly Like That”: Bearing Resemblance in Alice Oswald’s Memorial—A Response to Linne/Niederhoff and Hahnemann Chloe Wheatley Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract This article examines Alice Oswald’s use of simile in Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad (2011). While critical attention has tended to focus on the ways […]
And This Gives Life to Baby Shoes: Textual and Other Reasons for Canonicity. A Response to David Fishelov Lothar Černý Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract This response to David Fishelov suggests that the establishment of canonicity could/should be described as the result not only of textual and aesthetic […]
And This Gives Life to Baby Shoes: Textual and Other Reasons for Canonicity1 David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract In this article, I first relate briefly to several important characteristics of the six-word story “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” erroneously attributed to Hemingway and the best […]
The Ghost Story in Spenser’s Daphnaïda Kreg Segall Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract This study of Spenser’s Daphnaïda responds to David Lee Miller’s contentions that (1) this elegy is a purposely bad poem; (2) that Daphnaïda is more suitable to historical consideration than formal analysis; and (3) that […]
Anthologizing Shakespeare’s Sonnets Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract Since antiquity, schools, universities, and other institutions have canonized literary texts, that is, made choices as to what students should read and study. The present article intends to explore on which grounds these choices are made, using Shakespeare’s […]
From Rivers to Fountains: Henry Vaughan’s Secular and Sacred Inaugurations Jonathan Nauman Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract Henry Vaughan began his poetic career in emulation of the occasional verse of the Jonsonian coteries; and the pastoral title poem “To the River Isca,” which opens his Olor Iscanus collection, […]
Literary Anthologies: A Case Study for Metacognitively Approaching Canonicity1 William E. Engel Published in Connotations Vol. 33 (2024) Abstract Anthologies promote and perpetuate what amounts to a canon. The roots run deep in the Western tradition, with the Anthologia Graeca, a collection of Classical and Byzantine Greek literature modelled on […]
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