Modernism Revisited: Willi Erzgräber’s Studies in Modern English and Anglo-Irish Literature Bernfried Nugel Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) “The structure is now visible.” —Virginia Woolf1) By the very fact of its publication, a book of critical essays like Erzgräber’s collection nolens volens constitutes a challenge to the contemporary state […]
The Incorporation of Identities in Perkin Warbeck: A Response to Lisa Hopkins Willy Maley Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) In her thoughtful and provocative essay on John Ford’s The Broken Heart, Lisa Hopkins raises a number of important issues around the dramatisation of national identities in Ford’s corpus. In […]
Lisa Hopkins on John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Letter Verna A. Foster and Stephen Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) We are very pleased that Lisa Hopkins has found our work on The Broken Heart useful. Her essay is of great interest, and we find much to commend […]
Lucius, Still Severely Flawed: A Response to Jonathan Bate, Maurice Hunt, and Philip Kolin Anthony Brian Taylor Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) Jonathan Bate shares many of my misgivings about Lucius. Although I differ from Jonathan Bate somewhat in my appreciation of Lucius, I am conscious that no one […]
“Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus”: A Reply Philip C. Kolin Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) For centuries, including at least the first half of the Twentieth, Titus Andronicus has been the outcast of the Shakespeare canon, an easy prey for stalking critics. In denouncing the play, […]
Exonerating Lucius in Titus Andronicus: A Response to Anthony Brian Taylor Maurice Hunt Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) Anthony Brian Taylor has recently argued in masterful prose that Lucius in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is so severely flawed and ironically portrayed that he does not qualify as a Roman redeemer […]
Readers, Auditors, and Interpretation Frances M. Malpezzi Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) In “E.K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading,” I argued The Shepheardes Calender often illustrates the complexity and the limitations of language through both successful and failed attempts at human communication. If various orators and the fictional Immerito […]
Science and the Re-representation of African Identity in Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars Francis Ngaboh-Smart Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) At its inception and for a long time thereafter, written African literature was close to nationalist rhetoric.46) That is, before and immediately after independence, African leaders were not […]
Of Mountains and Men: Vision and Memory in Wordsworth and Petrarch Åke Bergvall Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) The discussion of T. H. White’s Arthurian novel The Once and Future King in Connotations drew my attention to this text, and as a medievalist and art historian I was struck […]
Getting A Head In A Warrior Culture: Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the Problem of Identity Lynne M. Robertson Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) Writing on the conclusion of Macbeth, William Ingram observes: It seems inescapable that the closing events of the fifth act—Birnam Wood moving, Macbeth arming, Macduff telling of […]
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