New Mythologies: Mamet, Shepard and the American Stage Gerry McCarthy Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) It is one of those entertaining paradoxes of contemporary Western culture that the myths of America, and by this we mean largely those of the United States of America, are both less substantial and […]
A Response to John Watters, “The Control Machine: Myth in The Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs” Oliver Harris Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) It’s no calligraphy for school children. Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony” Four decades of critical reaction to William Burroughs has generated so much more […]
Re-navigating “Crossing the Bar” Robert F. Fleissner Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) Jerome Hamilton Buckley’s response to me in Connotations 6.1 commences by pronouncing that I have not considered all the manuscript material of Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar.” True enough, but my purpose was to cling rather to the […]
“Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus”: A Reply’ Jonathan Bate Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) Anthony Brian Taylor’s essay brings forward some excellent arguments for a sceptical view of Lucius Andronicus, who takes charge of Rome at the end of Shakespeare’s first tragedy. I would like to […]
The Need for Editions of Shakespeare: A Response to Marvin Spevack R. A. Foakes Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) Editing Shakespeare has not come to an end, as Marvin Spevack claims in “The End of Editing Shakespeare,” nor is it likely to do so. It may be true that […]
Poets, Pastors, and Antipoetics: A Response to Frances M. Malpezzi, “E. K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading” Peter C. Herman Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) Frances M. Malpezzi has written a fascinating article on how Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender contains within it a critique of bad readership and instructions on […]
Richard Eden and Peter Martyr: Author’s Response Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) It is extremely gratifying to have elicited three very different responses to my article concerning a major early modern text representing the discovery of the Americas; (1) concerned with questions of the generic categorization of […]
“The country I had thought was my home”: David Mura’s Turning Japanese and Japanese-American Narrative since World War II Gordon O. Taylor Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) Unless the stone bursts with telling, unless the seed flowers with speech … Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1981) The poet David Mura, in […]
“I am not Oedipus”: Riddling the Body Politic in The Broken Heart Lisa Hopkins Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) In 1988 Verna Ann Foster and Stephen Foster published an extremely incisive article in English Literary Renaissance in which they argued that close parallels between the situation in John Ford’s […]
Joan Didion and “Company”: A Response to John Whalen-Bridge Gordon O. Taylor – Joan Didion and “Company”: A Response to John Whalen-Bridge and 251-57 Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) “TO BE CONTINUED” are the last words on the final page of Norman Mailer’s long novel Harlot’s Ghost. The ending […]
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