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Kenneth Muir – “Strange Meeting” Yet Again

“Strange Meeting” Yet Again Kenneth Muir Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) Jon Silkin, whose work as poet, editor and critic I have long admired and to whose journal, Stand, I have subscribed since its inception, deserves our gratitude for calling our attention to other poets of the First World […]

Arthur F. Kinney – Faulkner and Racism

Faulkner and Racism Arthur F. Kinney Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) The single most indelible fact about William Faulkner’s work is his persistent concentration on observing and recording the culture and country in which he was born; what is most striking now, as we look back on his legacy […]

Roy Battenhouse – Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Christian Premises

Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Christian Premises Roy Battenhouse Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) Because some thirty years ago I described Shakespeare’s tragedies as written from Christian premises, I have been requested to review what those premises are, and to comment on their significance. Along the way, I shall relate some […]

Åke Bergvall – Reason in English Renaissance Humanism: Starkey, More, and Ascham

Reason in English Renaissance Humanism: Starkey, More, and Ascham Åke Bergvall Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) Thomas Starkey’s A Dialogue between Pole and Lupset, written sometime between 1529 and 1532, is receiving increasing attention from scholars of political history, Renaissance humanism and literary criticism.114) The Dialogue, although remaining in […]