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 […]
Herbert’s Titles, Commonplace Books, and the Poetics of Use: A Response to Anne Ferry1) Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) According to Theodor W. Adorno, the demands on a literary title are made manifest by the fact that modern poetry cannot fulfil them.2) He regards the proper function […]
The Scarus-Episode in Antony and Cleopatra: A Response to Roy Battenhouse, Shakespearean Tragedy Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) When this short piece was ready for the press I heard that Professor Battenhouse had passed away. This is very sad news. I have always admired Professor Battenhouse as […]
A Comment on Roy Battenhouse’s “Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Christian Premises” Cecile Wiliamson Cary Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Abstract Cecil Williamson Cary reviews Shakespeare’s Christian Dimension (edited by Roy Battenhouse). Professor Battenhouse’s summary of the premises on which he has based his criticism of Shakespeare and his account of […]
A Response to Lisa Hopkins Nancy A. Gutierrez Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) In her brief but suggestive essay, “The False Domesticity of A Woman Killed with Kindness,” Lisa Hopkins reminds us that the domestic context and description in Thomas Heywood’s play are in fact self−conscious authorial inventions, providing […]
Who is Speaking in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland? A Response to John Breen Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) In his article on Spenser’s View, John Breen not only presented a perceptive overview of recent critical debate on a notoriously problematic text, but […]
Of Fountains and Foundations: An Elaboration on Åke Bergvall Patrick Grant Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Åke Bergvall offers a careful and interesting assessment of Thomas Starkey’s treatment of freedom in the Dialogue Between Pole and Lupset. Bergvall summarises the main theories by which Starkey was likely influenced, and […]
Herman Melville and Christian Grabbe: A Source for “The Godhead is Broken” Eleanor Cook Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) The correspondence between Melville and Hawthorne includes a number of remarkable letters, written at the time of the publication of Moby−Dick. One of them contains the following sentences: Whence come […]
Satire and Subversion: Orwell and the Uses of Anti-climax Brendan Wilson Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Orwell criticism has at least a good excuse. The failure to define Orwell’s specifically literary achievement is perhaps even a fortunate fault, in view of the genuine interest of his politics (described by […]
Melting Earth and Leaping Bulls: Shakespeare’s Ovid and Arthur Golding Anthony Brian Taylor Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Like other Elizabethans, Shakespeare would have known Ovid’s myths from his grammar school study of the poet’s work which primarily centred on the Metamorphoses.115) He would also have been taught a […]
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