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Donald Cheney – Response to John Russell Brown

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Response to John Russell Brown Donald Cheney Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) While it is true that we are speaking metaphorically when we talk about poetry as procreation, I would argue that all such metaphors demand and reward thorough scrutiny, whether or not they may finally “bear” it. Metaphors […]

Christopher Wessman – Marlowe’s Edward II as “Actaeonesque History”

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Marlowe’s Edward II as “Actaeonesque History” Christopher Wessman Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) In his historical tragedy Edward II, Christopher Marlowe pervasively engages an abundant variety of ancient myths. Most significantly, however, the drama uses as a motif the versatile Diana and Actaeon tale—of naked, angry goddess and metamorphosed […]

Barbara Korte – Survival of the Nation(al)? Notes on the Case of English-Canadian Literary Criticism

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Survival of the Nation(al)? Notes on the Case of English-Canadian Literary Criticism Barbara Korte Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In an age of ‘internationalism’ and ‘multiculturalism,’ societies have not become ‘post−national’. Current events in Central and Eastern Europe alone testify to the ongoing relevance of the ‘national’ as a […]

M. E. Kropp Dakubu – Representations and Transformations in the Fiction of Kojo Laing: The “Language of Authentic Being” Revisited

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Representations and Transformations in the Fiction of Kojo Laing: The “Language of Authentic Being” Revisited M. E. Kropp Dakubu Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In a recent article in this journal, Francis Ngaboh−Smart presented an interpretation of Kojo Laing’s novel, Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars as a representation […]

Arthur F. Kinney – Faulkner and the Problematics of Procreation

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Faulkner and the Problematics of Procreation Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) No black character in all of Faulkner’s crowded Yoknapatawpha saga receives more sustained attention than Lucas Beauchamp: his willful sense of self−esteem in a predominantly white world arouses and teaches the superficially liberal lawyer Gavin […]

James Soderholm – Byron’s Procreative Poetry

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Byron’s Procreative Poetry James Soderholm Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) To withdraw myself from myself (oh that cursed has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling. Lord Byron In the first canto of “Don Juan,” Byron almost reluctantly records the amorous pull that has brought […]

Christiane Bimberg – Poetry as Procreation: John Dryden’s Creative Concept of Poetry and Imitation

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Poetry as Procreation: John Dryden’s Creative Concept of Poetry and Imitation139) Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) 1. Introduction According to the Oxford English Dictionary ‘to procreate’ means “to bring forth or beget, produce, cause” or “to beget, engender, generate (offspring).” ‘Procreation’ is defined as “the action of […]