Response to D. L. Macdonald’s “Postilla”: The One and the Same Redux James Mandrell Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) “You say eether and I say eyether … .”1) The distance between Mandrell’s position and my own has to do, I think, both with subject matter and approach. (“A Postilla”)2) […]
Derek Walcott’s Don Juans: A Postilla D. L. MacDonald Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) After publishing my article on “Derek Walcott’s Don Juans” in Connotations, Dr. Leimberg sent a copy to James Mandrell, author of the admirable Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary […]
Some Thoughts on Faulkner’s “Racism” Ursula Brumm Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) We live, fortunately, at a time which has done away with the conviction of white superiority and banned racial prejudice. This has come about during the last decades as a historic development; we may well ask ourselves […]
“Crossing the Bar” Jerome H. Buckley Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Robert F. Fleissner begins his “Grace Note: The Manuscript Evidence for a Christological ‘Crossing the Bar'” with a call for a “closer reading of the manuscripts of the poem” as a guide to interpretation. He then cites the […]
A Woman Killed with Kindness: Author’s Response Lisa Hopkins Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) My essay on A Woman Killed with Kindness has elicited a number of thoughtful and interesting responses, from Nancy Gutierrez, from Diana Henderson and Michael Wentworth, and most recently from Sue Wiseman; in turn, Inge […]
More on Reading “Domestic” Tragedy and A Woman Killed with Kindness: Another Response to Lisa Hopkins S. J. Wiseman Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) In response to Lisa Hopkins’s article “The False Domesticity of A Woman Killed with Kindness” I want to make one, brief, point: the catch−all category […]
The End of Editing Shakespeare Martin Spevack Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Surveying editions of Shakespeare in 1853, the anonymous reviewer in the Athenaeum concluded: “As the demand increases for the plays of Shakespeare, so new editors will arise—all with notions and new readings of their own,—till it will […]
Dialogue-wise: Some Notes on the Irish Context of Spenser’s View Willy Maley Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Two recent contributions to this journal by John Breen and Andrew Hadfield on Spenser’s use of the dialogue form in A View of the Present State of Ireland have added much to […]
Peter Martyr and Richard Eden: A Letter Anthony Pagden Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Dear Editors, Thank you for your copy of Connotations and for your suggestion that I reply to Andrew Hadfield’s interesting piece “Peter Martyr, Richard Eden and the New World.” I do not, however think that […]
“Monsters and Straunge Births”: The Politics of Richard Eden. A Response to Andrew Hadfield Claire Jowitt Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Richard Eden is best known as the first English translator of Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo Decades (1516).51) In this text, and in his 1553 translation of sections […]
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