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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 […]

Thomas P. Adler – More Metadrama than Antidrama: Thoughts and Counter Thoughts on Bernd Engler’s “Arthur Kopit’s The Hero in Context”

More Metadrama than Antidrama: Thoughts and Counter Thoughts on Bernd Engler’s “Arthur Kopit’s The Hero in Context” Thomas P. Adler Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Although Bernd Engler’s claim that Arthur Kopit has been subjected to “unanimous critical neglect” is something of an overstatement (admittedly, articles by Gautam Dasgupta, […]

John Cooley – Faulkner, Race, Fidelity

Faulkner, Race, Fidelity John Cooley Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) They were as close to me as a reflection in the mirror; I could touch them, but I could not understand them.106)     —Claude Levi−Strauss Writing in response to Arthur Kinney’s essay “Faulkner and Racism” I will both endorse his […]

Terence Martin – Reflections on Jürgen Wolter’s “Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature”

Reflections on Jürgen Wolter’s “Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature” Terence Martin Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) After a strategic acknowledgement of self−reflexive characteristics in the work of Sterne, Richardson, and Fielding, Jürgen Wolter sets the context for his discussion with a review of the American case against the […]