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 […]
Nightmare Visions of Eden: Recollections of Home in Joyce Carol Oates’s “By the River” Bernd Engler Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Temptation, sin, fall, and expiation, all around in a circle, into the garden and out of it, many angels, great blazes of rhetoric and light. […] As if […]
Revisitings and Repetitions in Beckett’s Later Works107) John Brown Russell Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Dublin is a city set among gentle hills and the open sea. Arriving there when the sun shines in April or May, one’s spirits rise. Its streets, marked by some noble but not overpowering […]
The Sepulchral City Revisited: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Manfred Beyer Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) I Places are meaningful, and second visits are particularly interesting because they invite comparison. Revisiting a place, we may experience a sense of either déjà vu or change. Or perhaps we find that […]
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Revisiting and Reformation Lothar Černý Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) The prefix in “revisiting” points to the essential semantic aspect of the topic of this symposium. Whenever a place is revisited, whether in life or in literature, the past is involved and the relationship between […]
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