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” […]
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 […]
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’ […]
Narrative, Typology and Politics in Henry Vaughan’s “Isaac’s Marriage” Alan Rudrum Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) “Isaac’s Marriage” has attracted some attention as the only poem of the 1650 Silex Scintillans that was revised for the 1655 edition. A reviewer of my edition of Vaughan’s Complete Poems asked “Who […]
Shakespeare De-witched: A Response to Stephen Greenblatt Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) The following response was written some three years ago and sent, successively, to the editors of some of the most likely journals who were, however, “unable to accept it for publication; [because] it is not […]
“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 1960.94) 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 period131) testify that in the last years of his life he suffered from anaemia and periods of deep depression verging on madness.132) Different and heterogeneous […]
The Visuality of Personification in Richard Savage’s The Wanderer: A Vision152) Sandro Jung Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Richard Savage’s masterpiece, The Wanderer: A Vision,153) has hardly received any critical attention.154) Published in 1729, it is a poem that is innovative and in many respects unconventional in an age […]
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