Gerard Manley Hopkins Revisiting Binsey Christiane Lang-Graumann Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Binsey Poplars, felled 1879, My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That […]
A Pattern of the Mind: The Country House Poem Revisited Judith Dundas Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Criticism of country house poems of the seventeenth century has been largely concerned with generic characteristics. What has been for the most part ignored is the essentially playful nature of the genre. […]
The Madness of George III: Shakespeare, the History Play and Alan Bennett Brian Gibbons Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) In 1961 Alan Bennett, one of the four performers of the revue Beyond the Fringe, claimed in the programme to be writing a thesis on the retinue of Richard II. […]
Convicts, Characters, and Conventions of Acting in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Few plays endorse the social and cultural value of theatre as explicitly as Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good. Like Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, on which it is based, […]
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good as Contributions to a Definition of Culture Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Caryl Churchill and Timberlake Wertenbaker belong to Great Britain’s most distinguished female contemporary playwrights. Over the years they have helped to shape out of alternative, […]
Trading Meanings: The Breath of Music in Toni Morrison’s Jazz Nicholas F. Pici Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) “We played music in the house all the time,” recalls Toni Morrison in a 1992 interview with Dana Micucci (275). Indeed, Morrison was inundated with music and song during her childhood […]
A “Grotesque” Reply to Y. Yamada and B. Boehrer Rocco Coronato Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Pondering a reply to Yamada’s and Boehrer’s illuminating remarks on my article, I have been stuck between answering by merely clarifying some points of my argument or by accounting for its criticism on […]
Shakespeare’s “Removed Mysteries” Chris Hassel, Jr. Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Maurice Hunt persuades me in “Old England, Nostalgia, and the ‘Warwickshire’ of Shakespeare’s Mind” that several details in A Midsummer Night’s Dream might have been prompted by one of Shakespeare’s own early Warwickshire experiences, a summer pageant in […]
Patterns of Recollections in Montaigne and Melville William E. Engel Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) The picture of history—be it the history of mankind, of the world of organisms, of the earth or of the stellar systems—is a memory−picture. “Memory,” in this connexion, is conceived as a higher state […]
Paradise Remembered in Some Poems and Paintings John P. Hermann Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Let us begin at the crossroads where place, language, memory, and mind intersect, as Keats imagines, or reimagines. Specifically, with finitude suddenly catapulted to the 2nd, 3rd, or nth power, that is, with what […]
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