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 […]
An Answer to Maurice Hunt’s “Modern and Postmodern Discourses in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale” David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) I’m grateful to Maurice Hunt for his interrogation of issues linked to my piece on The Winter’s Tale.95) I’m also fascinated by what he takes to be its […]
The Texts of Peter Martyr’s De orbe novo decades (1504-1628): A Response to Andrew Hadfield Michael Brennan Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) In his informative reading of Richard Eden’s English translation of Peter Martyr’s De orbe novo decades, Andrew Hadfield rightly takes as his starting point the view that […]
T. H. White, Pacifism and Violence: The Once and Future Nation Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) My intellectual friends of those days, between the wars used to say to me: ‘Why on earth do you waste your talents feeding wild birds with dead rabbits?’ Was this a […]
Edwin Muir’s Chorus of the Newly Dead and its Analogues Kenneth Muir Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) In 1926 the Hogarth Press published Edwin Muir’s Chorus of the Newly Dead. This poem was never reprinted in his life−time, although he expressed his intentions of re−writing it with substantial revisions. […]
Hamlet: Reconstructing a Lost Code of Meaning Anthony DiMatteo Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) What’s Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (Hamlet 2.2.553−56)172) I. Introduction One […]
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