The Magic of M. M. Mahood’s Shakespeare’s Wordplay David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Abstract David Laird reads Molly M. Mahood’s chapter on The Winter’s Tale (in her volume Shakespeare’s Wordplay) “to be reminded of the vicissitudes of critical taste and practice, to be challenged to look beyond […]
The Woods, the West, and Icarus’s Mother: Myth in the Contemporary American Theatre John Russell Brown Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) In the youthful days of modern Europe, a mythology inherited from the Greek and Roman empires offered a sportive freedom to the mind among pagan gods and goddesses, […]
Myths of Identity in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight” Mary C. Fuller Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) 1. The protagonist of “The Schooner Flight” describes himself, in a passage which has become well−known, as a rusty head sailor with sea−green eyes that they nickname Shabine, the patois for any […]
The Myth of the American Adam in Late Mailer John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) Let us begin with the problem of Adam. Lewis’s 1955 study, The American Adam, explored a variety of nineteenth−century American writings to show that “the American dialogue” has largely been about notions of […]
The Control Machine: Myth in The Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs35) John G. Watters Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) The claim made by William S. Burroughs that he is creating a “mythology for the space age”36) did not lend me much assistance when writing this paper, however it […]
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 Dickinson129) 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,130) for example, will perhaps at first rejoice at the number of […]
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