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Arthur F. Kinney – Author’s Commentary

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 […]

Bernd Engler – The Cultural Dynamics of Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature: A Response to Jürgen Wolter

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 […]

Maurice Hunt – Modern and Postmodern Discourses in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Response to David Laird

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; […]

Peter Milward – Towards an Understanding of Christianity in Shakespeare: In Memory of Roy Battenhouse

Towards an Understanding of Christianity in Shakespeare: In Memory of Roy Battenhouse Peter Milward Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Abstract Peter Milward reacts to Cecil Williamson Cary’s review of Roy Battenhouse’s  Shakespeare’s Christian Dimension . All scholars working in the field of Shakespearean criticism, whether Christian or otherwise, have […]

Michael Wentworth – Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness and the Genetics of Genre Formation: A Response to Lisa Hopkins

Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness and the Genetics of Genre Formation: A Response to Lisa Hopkins Michael Wentworth Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Abstract Michael Wentworth adds to Lisa Hopkins’ discussion of the aesthetic qualitites of Thomas Heywood’s play A Woman Killed with Kindness some further thoughts […]

Robert F. Fleissner – Grace Note: The Manuscript Evidence for a Christological “Crossing the Bar”

Grace Note: The Manuscript Evidence for a Christological “Crossing the Bar” Robert F. Fleissner Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Abstract The purpose of this essay is to corroborate the critical verdict that the familiar “Pilot” image in Tennyson’s popular eschatological lyric “Crossing the Bar” bears directly on Christ as […]