Parodies of Six-Word Stories: A Comic Literary Metagenre1) David Fishelov Published in Connotations Vol. 31 (2022) Abstract The article discusses parodies of six-word stories and locates them within the broader context of metagenre in general, and humorous metagenre in particular. Parodies of six-word stories offer a playful, ironic perspective on […]
An Introduction to Metagenre with a Postscript on the Journey from Comedy to Tragedy in E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 31 (2022) Abstract The article defines metagenre as a quality or dimension of a literary text: the way the text reflects […]
A Sentimental Journey: Lost in Translation Mark Loveridge Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract This essay argues that Sterne’s pervasive interests in different forms of translation in A Sentimental Journey (1768) result in a text in which fuzzy, occult, and elusive language, calqued translation, wordplay, and suggestion are not […]
“New Alchimie”: Reading John Donne’s “Nocturnall” Through Poems by Kimberly Johnson and Alice Fulton Theresa M. DiPasquale Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract The study of pre-Enlightenment literature is too often separated from the study of contemporary literature; literary scholars are too often out of touch with their colleagues […]
C. S. Lewis’s Complex Relationship with Queer Milton Studies: Indirect Inspiration, Hegemonic Antagonist, and Erased Inconvenient Forerunner75) David V. Urban Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract This essay discusses queer Milton scholarship’s various responses to C. S. Lewis’s A Preface to Paradise Lost, beginning with Gregory Bredbeck’s groundbreaking 1991 […]
C. S. Lewis and His Later Respondents: Letting in Fresh Air, Preventing Questions, and Reimagining A Preface to Paradise Lost85) David V. Urban Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract This essay chronicles significant responses to C. S. Lewis’s A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942) that occurred from the 1960s […]
The Faerie Queene as Satirical Intertext for The Alchemist Jennifer C. Vaught Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract Building on Rachel Hile’s important study Spenserian Satire: A Tradition of Indirection, which largely focuses on Spenser’s shorter poems in The Complaints, this essay calls attention to the satirical dimension of […]
“There’s Something Wrong Somewhere”: Disenfranchisement and Diegesis in David Goodis’s Down There Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract Described by critics as a “poet of the losers” who masterfully portrayed the “economic struggles, in a truly Kafkaesque sense, of the underbelly of America during his time,” […]
The Authorship of De Doctrina Christiana: A Response to David V. Urban132) John K. Hale Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract Urban proposes that the doubts about Milton’s authorship of De Doctrina Christiana make it acceptable to ignore the work when one writes about the theology in Milton’s late […]
At the Cutting Edge: Touch Images in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”139) Jarkko Toikkanen Published in Connotations Vol. 30 (2021) Abstract The sense of touch, a less studied aspect of “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842), is peculiar to how Poe’s story is experienced. Along the way, […]
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