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 […]
“A kind of musical conversation”78): Britten and Crozier’s Let’s Make an Opera! Rebekka Fritz and Inge Leimberg and Nina Sandmeier Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) [Editorial Note: Due to copyright reasons the sheet music of the musical examples has to be omitted from the online version of the article.] […]
“He do the Police in Different Voices”147): A Bakhtinian Take on Conversational Modes in some Modern British Poets Rajeev S. Patke Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) “I am disappointed if a scene is carried through in the voice of the author rather than the voices of the characters.” Ivy […]
Robert Frost’s Conversational Style Maurice Charney Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Robert Frost would seem to be the ideal poet for this year’s Connotations topic: “The Poetics of Conversation in 20th−Century Literature.” Frost has written many poems with speakers engaged in conversation like “The Death of the Hired Man” […]
How to Have a Conversation with Gertrude Stein: An Essay in Four Steps Heather Cass White Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Introduction I was once at a lecture by Eve Sedgwick, who was talking about J. L. Austin’s How to Do Things With Words. Sedgwick was discussing Austin’s endless […]
Conversation and the Poetics of Modernism Lothar Hönnighausen – Conversation and the Poetics of Modernism Published in Connotations Vol. 10.2-3 (2000/01) Poetry as a literary genre encompasses many modes but conversational poetry or conversation in poetry is not what comes first to mind when one tries to define the essence […]
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