The Trials of Sincerity: William Godwin’s Political Justice v. His Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Eva M. Pérez Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) Godwin’s changing opinions regarding issues covered in Political Justice have been amply documented.1) My specific concern in this article is the contrast between the rational philosophy put […]
Mourning Place in Pastoral Elegy Trevor Laurence Jockims Published in Connotations Vol. 13.3 (2003/04) This paper seeks to centralize the role of the pastoral place, of generic convention, as it functions within John Milton’s pastoral elegies, focussing on “Lycidas” and the Latin elegy “Epitaphium Damonis.” The sense of “conventional” as […]
A. S. Byatt and the Life of the Mind: A Response to June Sturrock Sue Sorensen Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) June Sturrock’s admirable and admiring piece on A. S. Byatt was helpful in clarifying the shifts in Byatt’s style and intentions that have happened in the past decade. […]
A Letter in Response to Lara Narcisi Maxine Hong Kingston Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) I like your understanding and appreciation of Tripmaster Wittman and his journeys. It’s been my standard for a good book that the characters change, not just their fortunes but their very souls. I had […]
Who Shot the Hare in Stoppard’s Arcadia? A Reply to Anja Müller-Muth Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) In my recent essay on Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia I claim that the epistemology of the play is not sceptical. This is not a fashionable claim. The current academic climate favours […]
Translating English: Youth, Race and Nation in Colin MacInnes ‘s City of Spades and Absolute Beginners Nick Bentley Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Introduction The 1950s represent a key decade in the formation of an English national identity based on multicultural and multiethnic principles. This process was informed by […]
Jane Austen Meets Dickens: A Response to Thierry Labica Jean-Jacques Lecercle Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) In Thierry Labica’s “War, Conversation, and Context in Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude” I find myself, through direct interpellation, incited to justify a passing thought (that “Patrick Hamilton was a Marxist alcoholic […]
Waugh Among the Modernists: Allusion and Theme in A Handful of Dust Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh’s fourth novel, occupies a pivotal place in his work. Though it includes many of the comic and satiric elements that made his first […]
“… and the long secret extravaganza was played out”: The Great Gatsby and Carnival in a Bakhtinian Perspective Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) The supreme ruse of power is to allow itself to be contested ritually in order to consolidate itself more effectively. Georges Balandier76) From antiquity, […]
Love, That Four-Letter Word: A Response to Amanpal Garcha Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 13.1-2 (2003/04) Amanpal Garcha’s critique of my reading of Mansfield Park with Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class hinges on what he regards as my underestimation of sexual desire in Austen’s novels. In fact Dr. […]
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