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 Works73) 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 […]
The Search for F. P. Greve/Grove: From First Doubts to a Greve Biography Axel Knönagel Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) Frederick Philip Grove (1879−1948) was one of the most important Canadian authors in the first half of this century. With novels such as Settlers of the Marsh (1925), Our […]
Carnivalizing Jonson: A Reply to Rocco Coronato Bruce Boehrer Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) I admire Rocco Coronato’s recent discussion of carnivalesque motifs in the work of Ben Jonson, a discussion that contributes significantly to recent reappraisals of the poet’s reputation as the father of English neoclassicism. Since the […]
Deeper into the Bakhtinian Labyrinth: A Response to Rocco Coronato, “Carnival Vindicated to Himself?” Yumiko Yamada Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) I. As “Carnivalesque” and “Grotesque,” Yet Not As Positive? Rocco Coronato’s article is a reappraisal of Jonson made against the post−Bakhtinian prejudice, say, of Bristol that Carnival is […]
A Letter in Reply to Marvin Spevack, “The End of Editing Shakespeare” Nicholas Kind Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) In his article, Marvin Spevack talks of the Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies in the following terms: Just announced is the Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM, which is […]
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