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-response1) 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 Novels29) 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 […]
Notations on Connotations 3.1 Peter Milward Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) First, I note that all notations (or notes, or replies, or responses) hitherto published in Connotations have to do with specific contributions. Maybe that is quite enough, for the sake of concentration. But now I feel inspired by […]
Single Natures Double Name: A Reply to Peter Milward and James H. Sims Christiane Gillham Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) First of all, I would like to thank Professor Milward and Professor Sims for their most stimulating responses to my article. It is extremely gratifying not only to have […]
Half a Miracle: A Response to William Harmon Paul J. C. M. Franssen Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) Although William Harmon’s article is ingenious and stimulating on the whole, I should like to take issue with his most spectacular example, the (admittedly tentative) suggestion that the translation of Psalm […]
A Response to Judith Dundas, “Paronomasia in the Quip Modest” Debra Fried Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) If “Herbert has deliberately chosen to put his wit in the service of his faith” (Dundas, 225), he has done so in the full awareness of wit’s potential ties with the devil’s […]
The House of Fame: Tripartite Structure and Occasion R. J. Schoeck Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) It is a pleasure to rejoin scholarly discussion of Chaucer’s celebrated incomplete poem, one upon which I stumbled while in graduate school at Princeton with John M. Steadman many years ago and on […]
Inventional Mnemonics, Reading and Prayer: A Reply to Mary Carruthers Sylvia Huot Published in Connotations Vol. 3.2 (1993/94) Abstract Sylvia Huot adds to Mary Caruthers’ article on inventional mnemonics (published in Connotations 3.1) by offering further comments on the close relationship of reading and memory, and on the role that […]
Paronomasia Once More Eleanor Cook – Paronomasia Once More Published in Connotations Vol. 3.1 (1993/94) Professor Cook’s brilliant paper prompts so much in the way of delighted response that I could go on almost endlessly. But I will only make a few observations here, hoping that there will be another […]
A Note on Eleanor Cook, “From Etymology to Paronomasia” John Hollander Published in Connotations Vol. 3.1 (1993/94) Professor Cook’s brilliant paper prompts so much in the way of delighted response that I could go on almost endlessly. But I will only make a few observations here, hoping that there will […]
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