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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Domesticity, False or True: A Response to Lisa Hopkins Diana E. Henderson Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Abstract Diane Henderson responds to Lisa Hopkins’ article on Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness but asks for a re-analysis of domestic tragedy as a […]
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