Civil Journey: Mediating the Personal and the Political in the Essays of Storm Jameson Wendy Gan Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Storm Jameson is perhaps best known today as a socially committed novelist of the 1930s, interested in pioneering a “fiction of fact” (Women’s Writing in English 94). Like […]
My Career Goes Bung: Genre−Parody, Australianness and Anglophilia Sanjay Sircar Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Miles Franklin (1879−1954) entered the Australian canon with her first novel, the realist, nationalist, feminist−”revisioning,” autobiographically−based first−person My Brilliant Career (Career; 1901, filmed 1979). She followed it with neglected experimental metafictive novels whose heroines […]
Crucifixion Imagery in Paradise Lost Clay Daniel Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Milton in Paradise Lost has appeared to avoid the subject of the Crucifixion because he includes only a brief, orthodox account of the “cursed death … shameful and accurst” of Jesus (12.406, 413).5) Michael even metaphorically reassigns […]
Re-representing African Identity: A Response Derek Wright Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Francis Ngaboh−Smart’s essay “Science and the Re−representation of African Identity in Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars” explores the effect of the electronic revolution on the African literary imagination through a searching analysis of Kojo Laing’s 1992 […]
Joyce Carol Oates’s “By the River” Daniel F. Hurley Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Many of the enduring stories in western culture are etiological stories, stories about the beginnings of things. The Genesis story is such a story, purporting to explain, among other mysteries, the origins of death, sex, […]
Surrender Dorothy: A Reply to Leona Toker James Soderholm Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Bewitching as the hermeneutics of suspicion has been, it’s unusual to see a literary critic resist its (highly marketable) charms and instead trust her ears, eyes, hands—her feel for the texture of nuance—and more generally […]
Who was the Rival Poet of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 86? Eric Sams Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Many of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to a patron. One of them, No. 86, is about a rival poet. Its text reads as follows, in the 1609 first edition: Was it the proud […]
Gary Snyder, Dôgen, and “The Canyon Wren” John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) I. Conversing with the World Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996) is an anthology of ways of communicating across the boundaries perceived between species and spaces.62) We can speak with the world and with all […]
“But the names remain”: Dylan Thomas’s Return Journey Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Feature into Play In February 1941, Swansea suffered its severest air−raids. Dylan Thomas was staying in Bishopston at the time but returned to his home town for a visit on the morning after one […]
The Place Revisited in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Music and place The Four Quartets118) belong to those poems of Eliot’s in which words beginning with re play a constructive part.119) The word “revisit” occurs in the last Quartet, at a cathartic […]
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