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Elena Anastasaki – The Trials and Tribulations of the revenants: Narrative Techniques and the Fragmented Hero in Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier

The Trials and Tribulations of the revenants: Narrative Techniques and the Fragmented Hero in Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier Elena Anastasaki Published in Connotations Vol. 16.1-3 (2006/07) Reanimation, as a fantastic subject, can be found in myth and literature of all times. But towards the end of the eighteenth century […]

Susan Ang – “OOOO that Eliot-Joycean Rag”: A Fantasia upon Reading English Music

“OOOO that Eliot-Joycean Rag”97): A Fantasia98) upon Reading English Music Susan Ang Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Fathers, Sons and Vegetation Myth In “The Relics of Learning,” his review of Peter Ackroyd’s English Music, James Buchan institutes a comparison between Ackroyd and a hypothetical postmodernist architect, who, asked to […]

David Mason – Mamet’s Self-Parody: A Response to Maurice Charney

Mamet’s Self-Parody: A Response to Maurice Charney David Mason Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) In his article, Maurice Charney asserts that, whatever else David Mamet may be doing in his plays—and in Oleanna and Boston Marriage, specifically—he parodies himself. That is, Mamet’s work is persistently self−referential: at every of […]

Verna A. Foster – Stylistic Self-Consciousness Versus Parody in David Mamet: A Response to Maurice Charney

Stylistic Self-Consciousness Versus Parody in David Mamet: A Response to Maurice Charney Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Defining parody as “a form of imitation for satirical purposes,” Maurice Charney in his essay “Parody—and Self−Parody in David Mamet” notes that it is an “acute, stylistic self−consciousness” such […]

Edward Lobb – Waugh’s Conrad and Victorian Gothic: A Reply to Martin Stannard and John Howard Wilson

Waugh’s Conrad and Victorian Gothic: A Reply to Martin Stannard and John Howard Wilson Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) I am delighted that my article on Waugh, Conrad and Eliot has prompted such detailed, erudite, and thoughtful responses from Martin Stannard, Waugh’s biographer, and John Howard Wilson, […]