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Anca Rosu – In the Line of Wit: A Response to Eleanor Cook

In the Line of Wit: A Response to Eleanor Cook Anca Rosu Published in Connotations Vol. 2.3 (1992) Abstract In her reply to Elizabeth Cook’s aesthetic perspective on paronomasia and etymology in the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop, Anca Rosu stresses the historical and historicist dimensions of wordplay. […]

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan – From Paronomasia to Politics in the Poetry of Stevens and Bishop: A Response to Eleanor Cook

From Paronomasia to Politics in the Poetry of Stevens and Bishop: A Response to Eleanor Cook Jacqueline Vaught Brogan Published in Connotations Vol. 2.3 (1992) Abstract Jacqueline Vaught Brogan supplements Elizabeth Cook’s aesthetic perspective on paronomasia and etymology in the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop with the political […]

Inge Leimberg – An Answer to Kenneth Muir

An Answer to Kenneth Muir Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 2.3 (1992) Abstract Inge Leimberg responds to Kenneth Muir’s suggestions concerning the naming in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It is a great pleasure and a great honour to be offered a critical response by Professor Kenneth Muir whom, although […]

John Russell Brown – Connotations of Hamlet’s Final Silence

Connotations of Hamlet’s Final Silence John Russell Brown Published in Connotations Vol. 2.3 (1992) Abstract John Russell Brown addresses Maurice Charney’s and Dieter Mehl’s suggestions concerning his article on “the Last Moments of Hamlet”. I was very grateful to Professors Dieter Mehl and Maurice Charney for showing the short−comings of […]

Matthias Bauer – A Note in Reply to Alastair Fowler

A Note in Reply to Alastair Fowler Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 2.3 (1992) Abstract This note is a part of the debate on Inge Leimberg’s article on “M.O.A.I.,” a wordplay in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Many readers of Connotations will share my delight to find one of the undisputed […]

Alastair Fowler – Maria’s Riddle

Maria’s Riddle Alastair Fowler Published in Connotations Vol. 2.3 (1992) Abstract This is a response to Matthias Bauer’s “Count Malvolio, Machevill and Vice“and part of the debate on Inge Leimberg’s article on “M.O.A.I.,” a wordplay in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The interesting discussion of Maria’s riddle (“M.O.A.I. doth sway my life”: […]

Jonas Barish – Hal, Falstaff, Henry V, and Prose

Hal, Falstaff, Henry V, and Prose Jonas Barish Published in Connotations Vol. 2.3 (1992) Abstract In his response to Robert Crosman, Jonas Barish offers further ways to explain use of prose by Shakespeare’s Henry V. His argument for a methodological flexibility in the analysis of the play’s prose is that […]