A Question of Influence and Experience: A Response to Edward Lobb John Howard Wilson Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Edward Lobb’s stimulating essay is a welcome addition to the criticism concerning Evelyn Waugh’s fourth novel, A Handful of Dust (1934), thought by many to be his best. While some […]
In Search of a City: Civilization, Humanism and English Gothic in A Handful of Dust Martin Stannard Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Edward Lobb’s essay, “Waugh Among the Modernists: Allusion and Theme in A Handful of Dust,” raises interesting questions about Evelyn Waugh’s intellectual history. Developing the 1980s work […]
Another Response to “‘Across the pale parabola of Joy’: Wodehouse Parodist.” Laura Mooneyham White Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Leimberg’s study of Wodehouse’s gradual transformation from a writer with loose and tangential ties to realism into a writer with essentially no contact with realism at all is both entertaining […]
Some Remarks on “Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest” Christopher S. Nassaar Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Niederhoff’s article is interesting and reaches a significant conclusion, but it does challenge critical debate. I shall follow its own divisions in my response to it. (1) Parody […]
Emerson’s Allusive Art: A Transcendental Angel in Miltonic Myrtle Beds Frances M. Malpezzi Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Critics have long recognized the influence of John Milton on Ralph Waldo Emerson, and they have particularly noted that Emerson’s “Uriel” owes its title character to Milton’s Paradise Lost.41) Though Emerson’s […]
John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure: An Aesthetics of Textual Surprise57) Maik Goth Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) 1. Introduction: A Taste of Surprise “This is not a conventional cookbook”:101) such a statement at the beginning of a novel surely takes the reader by surprise. John Lanchester’s 1996 debut […]
The Mystery of Vladimir Nabokov’s Sources: Some New Ideas on Lolita’s Intertextual Links Alexander M. Luxemburg Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita has been extensively analyzed. Despite the amount of critical attention devoted to it, however, Lolita remains one of those works that still provoke textual […]
Tender Is What Night? Surprises in the Growth of Fitzgerald’s Fourth Novel William Harmon Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) 1925−1934: The nine−year span over which F. Scott Fitzgerald labored at Tender Is the Night balances uneasily at October 1929, which marked a turning point in many lives and fortunes. […]
“These things astonish me beyond words”: Wordplay in William Carlos Williams’s Poetry Margit Peterfy Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) -and I? […] whistle a contrapuntal melody to my own fugue!129) A poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.187) Wordplay, in terms of its reception, may […]
Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith’s “The Sinner” Myrtle Hooper Published in Connotations Vol. 14.1-3 (2004/05) Is there one of us that is without sin? Let him that would listen to the evil that is spoken of another acknowledge first the evil that is within himself, and who then will dare […]
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