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.1) 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 […]
The Opening of All’s Well That Ends Well Richard Levin Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) This essay focuses on a short passage—approximately eighty lines (mainly prose) in the Folio text—that introduces at the start of All’s Well That Ends Well the elderly ruling class of the play. This class […]
What is the Dream in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Robert Crosman Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) At the end of the play, after the newlyweds have retired to bed, leaving Theseus’s Athenian palace to the fairies of whose existence they are still unaware, Puck addresses the audience with one […]
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 […]
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