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”29) and Traherne’s “Thanksgivings”30): A Hypothesis31) 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 […]
“Competing Discourses in The Winter’s Tale”: Two Letters Stephen Greenblatt and David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Dear David Laird, This is a note of belated thanks for the copy of your essay in Connotations, “Competing Discourses in The Winter’s Tale.” I found it an engaging and provocative […]
Author’s Commentary Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) In responding to my essay on “Faulkner and Racism” (Connotations 3:3), Philip Cohen notes that “It is both easy and fashionable in literary criticism nowadays either to wave the bloody flag of moral and ideological superiority over an earlier […]
Faulkner and Racism: A Commentary on Arthur F. Kinney’s “Faulkner and Racism” Philip Cohen Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Anyone seeking to shed light on the vexed subject of the racial convictions expressed by William Faulkner during his life and in his fiction must, I think, confront the central […]
The Cultural Dynamics of Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature: A Response to Jürgen Wolter Bernd Engler Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Given the well−established theory that the censure of fiction was a pervasive feature of American cultural criticism in the nineteenth century, one may well be surprised to […]
Modern and Postmodern Discourses in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Response to David Laird Maurice Hunt Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) In his article, David Laird gracefully and cogently defines several contending idioms in the play, primarily Leontes’ absolutist language, intent on forcing connotations into a single, self-serving meaning; […]
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