“Fortuitous Wit”: Dialogue and Epistemology in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) 1. An Introduction to Arcadia Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, which was first performed and published in 1993, is a play of ideas. It is also a play about ideas, in particular about the processes […]
‘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 1960.14) This statement is as important as it seems paradoxical. Celan’s poetic language seems far removed indeed […]
The Poetics of Conversation in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) The reception and critical evaluation of Woolf’s essays regrettably falls short of the appreciation of her fiction. All in all her essays comprise more than 800 reviews and articles on […]
Hopkins’s Portraits of the Artist: Between the Biographical and the Ideological Dennis Sobolev Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Hopkins’s letters written in the Dublin period51) testify that in the last years of his life he suffered from anaemia and periods of deep depression verging on madness.52) Different and heterogeneous […]
The Visuality of Personification in Richard Savage’s The Wanderer: A Vision72) Sandro Jung Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Richard Savage’s masterpiece, The Wanderer: A Vision,73) has hardly received any critical attention.74) Published in 1729, it is a poem that is innovative and in many respects unconventional in an age […]
Vaughan and Divine Inspiration: A Reply to Donald Dickson Jonathan Nauman Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Donald Dickson’s recent examination of agency in Henry Vaughan’s sacred poetry attempts with unusual straightforwardness to explore what Vaughan meant when he claimed to have “copied”his verses under the force of divine inspiration. […]
“Momentary visions of permanence” in the Stuart Masque or the Eloquence of Speech through Picture Thierry Demaubus Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) The Stuart masque has often been viewed as a performing art born of the collaboration between a poet and a stage designer. As far as Ben Jonson […]
Poetics and Conversation Neal R. Norrick Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) For many literary scholars, “The Poetics of Conversation in Twentieth−Century Literature and Criticism” includes looking for conversational features of the language in poetry, plays and fiction. One might argue that Frost or Williams writes poetry very close in […]
‘Conversation’ among Pragmatist Philosophers John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an enquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and made more articulate in […]
Conversational Echoes in Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes (1989) Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Elements of conversation regularly enter literary texts both as subject−matter and narrative form. In creating an awareness of the mechanisms of conversation, literature can discuss its own discursive strategies. In children’s literature this literary self−reflexion […]
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