Donne’s Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word Margret Fetzer Published in Connotations Vol. 17.1 (2007/08) Whenever John Donne preached at Lincoln’s Inn or at St. Paul’s, he may well have been aware of that other institution which competed with him for his listeners—even on church days: the theatre. There were […]
Bennett’s The History Boys: Unnoticed Ironies Lead to Critical Neglect John J. Stinson Published in Connotations Vol. 16 (2006/07) Any one, or a combination of the following, may be the reason why Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys (2004) has received virtually no serious attention to date from academic critics: […]
Self and Other: Narrativity in Xinran’s The Good Women of China and Sky Burial Amy Lai Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) In the past two decades, a number of Chinese diaspora writers have attained worldwide fame and sparked the interests of historians and literary critics. Nobel Prize winner Gao […]
The Person from Porlock in “Kubla Khan” and Later Texts: Inspiration, Agency, and Interruption Laura Mooneyham White Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) Of late, literary criticism has focused on the socio−cultural agency of artistic production, writing in the material elided by the classical tradition of the Muse on the […]
“Betray’d to Shame”: Venice Preserved and the Paradox of She-Tragedy Elizabeth Gruber Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) Introduction: Murdering Women As is well known, when English theaters re−opened during the Restoration, women were allowed to act in them. This innovation would seem, initially, to be an unqualified boon for […]
Attitudes Towards Death in Middle English Lyrics and Hagiography Matthias Galler Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) ‘How ben may yt At ye to deth as gladly go As to a feste?’ The attitude of the bulk of thirteenth− to fifteenth−century English lyrics towards death is captured in the refrain […]
Dis(re)membering History’s revenants: Trauma, Writing, and Simulated Orality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Hannes Bergthaller Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) “Most artful Teuth, [you], being the father of written letters, have on account of goodwill said the opposite of what they can do. For this will provide forgetfulness in the […]
“For/From Lew”: The Ghost Visitations of Lew Welch and the Art of Zen Failure. A Dialogue for Two Voices John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) [The following is a transcription of comments made by two academics in the lobby of a post−9⁄11 airport, where they sat waiting as […]
The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) 1. Introduction 1972 was Margaret Atwood’s annus mirabilis. In one and the same year, she published Surfacing, a powerful and disturbing novel that has become a classic of twentieth-century fiction, […]
Decadence and Renewal in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) The plot of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend focuses on the presumed death and ultimate reappearance of the jeune premier, John Harmon. It had been Dickens’s plan to write about “a man, young and perhaps […]
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