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 […]
Author and Reader in Renaissance Texts: Fulke Greville, Sidney, and Prince Henry Elaine Y. L. Ho Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Abstract The discussion between John Breen and Andrew Hadfield (publ. in Connotations 4) on the authorial responsibility of Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland Elaine […]
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 […]
Peter Martyr, Richard Eden and the New World: Reading, Experience, and Translation Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 5.1 (1995/96) Abstract In this essay Andrew Hadfield explores an encounter narrated in one of the most influential early accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo […]
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, […]
Is it a Boy or a Girl? Gender as the Ever-Present Authority and Anxiety in Bishop Studies Kathrine Varnes Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) In the last issue of Connotations, an article by Jonathan Ausubel entitled “Subjected People: Towards a Grammar for the Underclass in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry” appeared […]
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