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Philip McGowan – The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby

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The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby Philip McGowan Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) I To argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s long−held masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925) produces in the United States of the 1920s a replication of Bakhtinian forms of carnival excess and release is an interesting, and […]

Barbara C. Bowen – P. G. Wodehouse Linguist?

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P. G. Wodehouse Linguist?1) Barbara C. Bowen Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) One of the world’s great comic writers, “English literature’s performing flea” (according to Sean O’Casey), a linguist? Surely not. In the first place, we Brits have traditionally been resistant to learning foreign languages (on the grounds that […]

Dan Harder – The Tempest in the Trivium

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The Tempest in the Trivium Dan Harder Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) To the delight of his audiences, both past and present, Shakespeare rarely created names of stubbornly obscure origin. In his last play, however, it seems he did just that. I refer, namely, to Sycorax—witch−mother of Caliban and, […]

Andreas K. Müller – Shakespeare’s Country Opposition: Titus Andronicus in the Early Eighteenth Century

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Shakespeare’s Country Opposition: Titus Andronicus in the Early Eighteenth Century Andreas K. Müller Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Since the play’s first performance in the early 1590s, Titus Andronicus has enjoyed a rather uneven performance history. William Shakespeare’s first revenge tragedy achieved some considerable popularity in the playwright’s lifetime, […]

Lawrence F. Rhu – On Cheney on Spenser’s Ariosto

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On Cheney on Spenser’s Ariosto Lawrence F. Rhu Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Calling Spenser’s reprises of Ariosto “parody” initially strikes me as wrongheaded. But it is striking nonetheless, and that is not a bad way to capture a reader’s attention. It may not exactly fit the rhetorician’s terminology […]

Paul D. Morris – Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry: Reading the Critical Reception of Nabokovs Poetry and “The Poem” and “Restoration”

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Vladimir Nabokov and the Surprise of Poetry: Reading the Critical Reception of Nabokovs Poetry and “The Poem” and “Restoration” Paul D. Morris Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) Vladimir Nabokov is a surprising poet.73) As a question of audience awareness, for many readers, the very designation of Nabokov as a […]

Arthur F. Kinney – Unscrambling Surprises

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Unscrambling Surprises Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 15.1-3 (2005/06) “A sense of place was everything to William Faulkner,” is the way Jay Parini begins his new biography of Faulkner (2004) entitled One Matchless Time; “and more than any other American novelist in the twentieth century, he understood how […]