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Joan Fitzpatrick – Foreign Appetites and Alterity: Is there an Irish Context for Titus Andronicus?

Foreign Appetites and Alterity: Is there an Irish Context for Titus Andronicus?20) Joan Fitzpatrick Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) This essay is concerned with foreign appetites, particularly those related to food consumption and sexual behaviour depicted as physically or morally reprehensible or strange. These appetites operate as distinct indications […]

Rodney Symington – Response to Alan Latta, “Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imaging Thomas Mann”

Response to Alan Latta, “Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imaging Thomas Mann” Rodney Symington Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) Alan Latta argued in his essay that Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966) is a “re−imagining” of Thomas Mann’s novella “Tristan” […]

Christoph Lindner – Conrad, Capitalism, and Decay

Conrad, Capitalism, and Decay Christoph Lindner Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) This essay examines Conrad’s vision of decay in The Secret Agent (1907) to argue that the novel expresses acute anxieties over capitalism’s decadent social and material effects. Set in the seedy underworld and grimy back−streets of London in […]

Ursula Brumm – Another View on The Turn of the Screw

Another View on The Turn of the Screw Ursula Brumm Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) Professor Edward Lobb in his essay “The Turn of the Screw, King Lear, and Tragedy” has drawn attention to a striking similarity between Henry James’s story and Shakespeare’s tragedy by pointing to “six ‘nothings’ […]

Hannah K. Charney – ‘Weisst du noch, dass ich sang?’ Conversation in Celan’s Poetry

‘Weisst du noch, dass ich sang?’ Conversation in Celan’s Poetry Hannah K. Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) “The poem becomes conversation—often desperate conversation,” Paul Celan said in his “Meridian” Speech in 1960.160) This statement is as important as it seems paradoxical. Celan’s poetic language seems far removed indeed […]