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 […]
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 […]
Reading Jacqueline Vaught Brogan’s “Notes from the Body” Martine Watson Brownley Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) Writing is supposed (I think so at least) to try and say the truth—it’s a desperate deep poet’s truth. And truth is always violent; it is a synonym of violence. Hélène Cixous60) In […]
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 […]
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. […]
Christmas as Humbug: A Manuscript Poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (“L. E. L.”) F. J. Sypher Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) “L.E.L.”—as she signed her work—enjoyed great popularity and esteem during the 1820s and 1830s, not only in England, but also in the United States and on the European […]
“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, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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