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.4) 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 Quartets60) belong to those poems of Eliot’s in which words beginning with re play a constructive part.61) The word “revisit” occurs in the last Quartet, at a cathartic […]
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, […]
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