Mythic Sex in Mississippi: Eula and Ike Snopes Lothar Hönnighausen Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) Faulkner has long ceased to be the naive genius from the rural South. Instead, critics have turned him into an international modernist, inspired by T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, by cubism and vorticism. […]
Noble Imagery: Wallace Stevens and Mesoamerican Mythology Anca Rosu Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) Recent critical debates around Wallace Stevens’s poetry often explain away the more obscure passages of his poems by connecting them to their possible sources in contemporary culture (see Lentricchia, Filreis, MacLeod, Longenbach). This approach comes […]
Faulkner and Racial Mythology Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) Dear visitor, articles in the HTML format (for easy viewing in your browser) will be provided shortly. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Until then, you can access the PDF file of the article by following the […]
Modern Republicanism and the Education of Achilles: An Interpretation of Tom Sawyer John R. Kayser and John Fitzgerald Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) For our part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker and the author of three books “On Anger,” we pronounce for […]
The Language of Dogs: Mythos and Logos in Emily Dickinson55) Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) Emily Dickinson’s attitude to myth and mythology is an elusive subject. The reader scanning the index of Richard Sewall’s comprehensive biography,56) for example, will perhaps at first rejoice at the number of […]
Mythifying Africa Ruth Mayer Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) As for the black—whose brain, not body, had schemed and led the revolt, with the plot—his slight frame, inadequate to that which it held, had at once yielded to the superior muscular strength of his captor, in the boat. Seeing […]
The Myth of the Self in Whitman’s “Song of Myself”140) and Traherne’s “Thanksgivings”141): A Hypothesis142) Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) The Title “Song of Myself,” untitled and unsectioned in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, became “Poem of Walt Whitman, an American” in 1856 and “Walt […]
Calvinism Feminized: Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe John Gatta Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) I Confronting her New England religious heritage with more personal credulity than Hawthorne ever did his, the seventh child of Lyman and Roxana Beecher found herself engaged in a lifelong struggle to assimilate—and to […]
Mythical Aspects of Poe’s Detective Lothar Černý Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. (Love’s Labour’s Lost 1.1.77−79) The detective as a literary figure has […]
Melville and Grabbe: A Letter Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Dear Editors, As regards Grabbe’s Don Juan und Faust as a possible source for Melville, I’m afraid there is no evidence whatsoever that Melville read German and Professor Cook makes no mention of an English […]
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