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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.30) The Dialogue, although remaining in […]

Alicia Ostriker – A Note on ‘Notes from the Body’

A Note on ‘Notes from the Body’ Alicia Ostriker Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) Women’s love poetry is not what it used to be. Of course it never was. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whose “Sonnets from the Portugese” were once considered the height, or is it depth, of sentimentality, is […]

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan – Notes from the Body

Notes from the Body Jacqueline Vaught Brogan Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) Is it over between us, before it’s begun? We talk, several times daily at great cost.   Something spiralling between     our vision—naked trees, grey light, flashing storms, reddest aspens of the fall You’re afraid of your job. […]

Jon Silkin – “Strange Meeting,” a Fragment? A Reply to Muir’s “Owen”

“Strange Meeting,” a Fragment? A Reply to Muir’s “Owen” Jon Silkin Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) In footnote 3 to his “Connotations of “Strange Meeting'” Kenneth Muir somewhat irritably censures me, for my continued unease with “Anthem for Doomed Youth.” I would, however, maintain, that questioning “Anthem” one strengthens, […]

Douglas Kerr – “Strange Meeting” Again

“Strange Meeting” Again Douglas Kerr Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) Kenneth Muir’s essay “Connotations of ‘Strange Meeting'” is a thoughtful and interesting contribution to a discussion that has been going on, in various forms and fora, for the three−quarters of a century since the poem was first published in […]

Bernard Harrison – Gaps and Stumbling-Blocks in Fielding: A Response to Černý, Hammond and Hudson

Gaps and Stumbling-Blocks in Fielding: A Response to Černý, Hammond and Hudson Bernard Harrison Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) I Wolfgang Iser’s theory of reader-response108) evokes a mixed response in this reader. Iser leaves himself open to some telling, and apparently fundamental, objections. But in general they seem to […]

Andrew Varney – Brightness and Beauty, Taste and Relish: Advertising and Vindicating Eighteenth-Century Novels

Brightness and Beauty, Taste and Relish: Advertising and Vindicating Eighteenth-Century Novels136) Andrew Varney Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) The preface to The Life and Adventures of Capt. John Avery (1709) complains that readers who question the book’s authenticity act unfairly in giving a defenceless author “a Kick in the […]