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D. L. MacDonald – Derek Walcott’s Don Juans: A Postilla

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 […]

Ursula Brumm – Some Thoughts on Faulkner’s “Racism”

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 […]

Jerome H. Buckley – “Crossing the Bar”

“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 […]

Lisa Hopkins – A Woman Killed with Kindness: Author’s Response

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 […]

S. J. Wiseman – More on Reading “Domestic” Tragedy and A Woman Killed with Kindness: Another Response to Lisa Hopkins

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 […]

Martin Spevack – The End of Editing Shakespeare

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 […]

Anthony Pagden – Peter Martyr and Richard Eden: A Letter

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 […]