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 […]
“The Hole in the Wind” from the Author’s Point of View Sujata Bhatt Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) In June 1995, when I received a letter from the Literature Department at the South Bank Centre in London, inviting me to participate in a ‘ghost poem series’ they were planning […]
Blended Identity: Culture and Language Variations in Sujata Bhatt’s “The Hole in the Wind” Cecile Sandten Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) Does the blending and fusion of cultures depend on dislocation, loss of communal memories, and individual alienation? As it seems to me, Sujata Bhatt’s long prose poem “The […]
Summertime of the Dead Whispered the Truth of His Joy: A Response to Eynel Wardi Shachar Bram Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) As a starting point to my discussion of Thomas’s “Poem in October” and Wardi’s thoughtful presentation of it, I find it necessary to distinguish three “personae” taking […]
Wuthering Heights for Children: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden Susan E. James Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) English children’s author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, was two years old41) when Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847, shocking critics, the public and her sister, Charlotte. In 1910, sixty−three […]
A Response to “Dracula and the Idea of Europe” by Eleni Coundouriotis Carol A. Senf Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) Reference: While I don’t agree with everything that Professor Coundouriotis says about Dracula in her essay, I am deeply appreciative of the fact that her reading of the novel […]
The Turn of the Screw, King Lear, and Tragedy Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) Discussion of Henry James’s Turn of the Screw remains stubbornly inconclusive, and recent criticism has turned away from traditional disagreements about the story (the question of whether the ghosts are real, for example) […]
Verse Satire: Its Form, Genre, and Mode John T. Shawcross Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) My view of genre does not allow me to classify what is often called satire as a genre; rather it is verse satire (or prose satire) that is a genre. Genre implies a form […]
The Vertue of Spectacle in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Daniel Kane Published in Connotations Vol. 10.1 (2000/01) In Connotations 6.2, Anthony Brian Taylor provides us with an excellent reading of Lucius as “the severely flawed redeemer” in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Taylor helps the modern reader to reassess Lucius as a character […]
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