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Tara Fitzpatrick – Liberty, Corruption and Seduction in the Republican Imagination

Liberty, Corruption and Seduction in the Republican Imagination Tara Fitzpatrick Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) I In the fall of 1787, as the Constitutional Convention completed its work, Philadelphia’s Columbian Magazine published a two−part “original novel, founded upon recent facts,” as part of its editorial commitment to encourage “the […]

David Laird – Competing Discourses in The Winter’s Tale

Competing Discourses in The Winter’s Tale David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) In a recent article, Stephen Orgel makes a case for textual incomprehensibility.46) He suggests that earlier editors were mistaken when they worried obscure passages into sense. He fastens on several notoriously difficult passages in The Winter’s […]

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 […]