Romance and the Didactic in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: An Elaboration upon Andrew Varney Brean S. Hammond Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) What I have to offer on Andrew Varney’ s stimulating piece is a widow’s mite rather than a more thrilling Titanic struggle-a matter of emphasis and nuance. On […]
Shakespeare, Burgess, and Psalm 46: A Note in Reply to Paul Franssen William Harmon Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) I figure that I have had my turn at bat, and, if others want to comment on what I say, then they can have their turns. Once one engages in […]
Chivalry and Courtesy: A Comment on Richard McCoy, The Rites of Knighthood Thomas Kullmann Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) Where rites and ceremonies of the Elizabethan age are concerned, which are given expression in literary texts, inductive analyses of historical and phenomenological data (now frequently going by the name […]
Antidrama—Metadrama—Artistic Program? Arthur Kopit’s The Hero in Context Bernd Engler Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) In 1957, Arthur Kopit, then a student of engineering at Harvard University had his first play, the one−act drama The Questioning of Nick, performed at the stage of the Dunster House Drama Workshop in […]
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 […]
Was The Raigne of King Edward III a Compliment to Lord Hunsdon? Roger Prior Published in Connotations Vol. 3.3 (1993/94) The anonymous play The Raigne of King Edward the Third was entered in the Stationers’ Register on 1 December 1595 and first published in the following year.44) It owes what […]
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.107) 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 Cixous137) 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 […]
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