Why Does Jig Smile? Readings of “Hills Like White Elephants” Daniel Avitzour Published in Connotations Vol. 27 (2018) Abstract The ending of Hemingway’s 1927 story, “Hills Like White Elephants” was interpreted for decades in one way: the female protagonist surrenders to her partner’s wishes that she undergo abortion. Around 1980, […]
“[M]emories and similes laid side by side”: The Paratactic Poetics of Alice Oswald’s Memorial26) Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff Published in Connotations Vol. 27 (2018) Abstract Alice Oswald’s Memorial (2011) is an adaptation of the Iliad that leaves out the narrative passages and the speeches made by the characters. What […]
Self-Imposed Fetters: The Productivity of Formal and Thematic Restrictions Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 27 (2018) Abstract From July 30 to August 3, 2017, the 14th International Connotations Symposium took place at Mülheim an der Ruhr in Germany. Its topic, “Self-Imposed Fetters: The Productivity of Formal and Thematic Restrictions,” […]
“In Another Light”: New Intertexts for David Dabydeen’s “Turner” Carl Plasa Published in Connotations Vol. 26 (2016/17) Abstract As its “Preface” states, David Dabydeen’s “Turner” (1994) takes its inspiration from Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon Coming On (1840), more commonly known as The Slave […]
Tennyson’s “Tithonus” and the Revision of Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” Jayne Thomas Published in Connotations Vol. 26 (2016/17) Abstract This article reexamines Wordsworth’s influence in Tennyson’s 1860 dramatic monologue, “Tithonus.” Tennyson’s poem sounds with well-tracked Wordsworthian echoes and allusions, many of which allude directly to “Tintern Abbey” (1798); critics have pointed […]
The Equanimity of Influence: Milton and Wordsworth Stephen M. Fallon Published in Connotations Vol. 26 (2016/17) Abstract By characterizing the relation of Wordsworth to Milton as one of “equanimity of influence,” this essay suggests that in The Prelude Wordsworth is in a dialogue with Milton’s Paradise Lost that is both […]
“When Contemplation like the Night-Calm Felt”: Religious Considerations in Poetic Texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth Henry Weinfield Published in Connotations Vol. 26 (2016/17) Abstract This essay discusses the influence of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 15 (“When I consider everything that grows”) on Milton’s Sonnet 19 (“When I consider how my light […]
“An Unparalleled Plethora of Idiocy”: Len Deighton’s Political Skepticism in The Ipcress File Robert Lance Snyder Published in Connotations Vol. 26 (2016/17) Abstract As an espionage thriller The Ipcress File (1962) conveys a profound skepticism about all political ideologies regnant during the Cold War. Len Deighton exposes not only the […]
Edith Wharton’s Geographical Imagination: A Response to Judith P. Saunders Gary Totten Published in Connotations Vol. 26 (2016/17) Judith Saunders’s article, “Wharton’s Hudson River Bracketed and Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’: Re-Creating Xanadu in an American Landscape,” is a thoughtful study of Wharton’s literary influences and their effects on her geographical imagination […]
Overwhelming Questions: An Answer to Chris Ackerley Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 26 (2016/17) In his response to my article on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Chris Ackerley objects to several points in my discussion of the poem and makes some observations of his own about Eliot’s […]
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