Selected Debates

N.B. Numbers refer to issues and pagination of the printed version of Connotations.

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Marlowe's Edward II

Wessman, Christopher. "Marlowe's Edward II as 'Actaeonesque History.'" Connotations 9.1 (1999/2000): 1-33.

Bonaparte, Felicia, and Jacob Stern. "Response to Christopher Wessman, 'Marlowe's Edward II as "Actaeonesque History."'" Connotations 9.3 (1999/2000): 223-27.

DiMatteo, Anthony. "Identifying Marlowe's Radicalism: A Response to Christopher Wessman." Connotations 9.3 (1999/2000): 228-40.

Bowers, Rick. "Edward II, 'Actaeonesque History,' Espionage and Performance." Connotations 9.3 (1999/2000): 241-47.

Spenser's Parody

Cheney, Donald. "Spenser's Parody." Connotations 12.1 (2002/2003): 1-13.

Esolen, Anthony. "Highways and Byways: A Response to Donald Cheney." Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 1-4.

McCabe, Richard A. "Parody, Sympathy and Self: A Response to Donald Cheney." Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 5-22.

Shakespeare and New Historicism

Leimberg, Inge. "Shakespeare De-witched: A Response to Stephen Greenblatt." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002) : 60-77.

Derdzinski, Mark. "'Invisible Bullets': Unseen Potential in Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicism." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/02): 272-90.

Editing Shakespeare

Spevack, Marvin. "The End of Editing Shakespeare." Connotations 6.1 (1996/97): 78-85.

Foakes, R. A. "The Need for Editions of Shakespeare: A Response to Marvin Spevack." Connotations 6.3 (1996/97): 326-29.

Kind, Nicholas. "A Letter in Reply to Marvin Spevack, 'The End of Editing Shakespeare.'" Connotations 7.2 (1997/98): 219.

Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus." Connotations 6.2 (1996/97): 138-57.

Bate, Jonathan. "'Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus': A Reply." Connotations 6.3 (1996/97): 330-33.

Hunt, Maurice. "Exonerating Lucius in Titus Andronicus: A Response to Anthony Brian Taylor." Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 87-93.

Kolin, Philip C. "'Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus': A Reply." Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 94-96.

Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Lucius, Still Severely Flawed: A Response to Jonathan Bate, Maurice Hunt, and Philip Kolin." Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 97-103.

Kane, Daniel. "The Vertue of Spectacle in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus." Connotations 10.1 (2000/2001): 1-17.

Falconbridge in Shakespeare's King John

Morgan, Val. "Camusian Revolt and the Making of Character: Falconbridge in Shakespeare's King John." Connotations 11.2-3: 146-65.

Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice

Rosen, Alan. "Impertinent Matters: Lancelot Gobbo and the Fortunes of Performance Criticism." Connotations 8.2 (1998/99): 217-31.

Rosenheim, Judith."Making Friends of Stage and Page: A Response to Alan Rosen." Connotations 9.3 (1999/2000): 257-68.

The Last Moments of Hamlet

Brown, John Russell. "Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet." Connotations 2.1 (1992): 16-33.

Mehl, Dieter. "Hamlet's Last Moments: A Note on John Russell Brown." Connotations 2.2 (1992): 182-85.

Charney, Maurice. "The Rest Is Not Silence: A Reply to John Russell Brown." Connotations 2.2 (1992): 186-89.

Brown, John Russell. "Connotations of Hamlet's Final Silence." Connotations 2.3 (1992): 275-86.

Klein, Holger. "Hamlet and After." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 56-59.

Twelfth Night

Leimberg, Inge. "'M.O.A.I.' Trying to Share the Joke in Twelfth Night 2.5 (A Critical Hypothesis)." Connotations 1.1 (1991): 78-95.

Brown, John Russel. "More About Laughing at 'M.O.A.I.' A Response to Inge Leimberg." Connotations 1.2 (1991): 187-90.

Leimberg, Inge. "Maria's Theology and Other Questions. An Answer to John Russell Brown." Connotations 1.2 (1991): 191-96.

Bauer, Matthias. "Count Malvolio, Machevill and Vice." Connotations 1.3 (1991): 224-43.

Tobin, J. J. M. "A Response to Matthias Bauer, 'Count Malvolio, Machevill and Vice.'" Connotations 2.1 (1992): 76-81.

Fowler, Alastair. "Maria's Riddle." Connotations 2.3 (1992): 269-70.

Bauer, Matthias. "A Note in Reply to Alastair Fowler." Connotations 2.3 (1992): 271-74.

The Phoenix and Turtle:

Gillham, Christiane. "'Single Nature's Double Name': Some Comments on The Phoenix and Turtle." Connotations 2.2 (1992): 126-36.

Milward, Peter. "'Double Nature's Single Name': A Response to Christiane Gillham." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 60-63.

Sims, James H. "Shakespeare's 'The Phoenix and the Turtle': A Reconsideration of 'Single Natures Double Name.'" Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 64-71.

Gillham, Christiane. "Single Natures Double Name: A Reply to Peter Milward and James H. Sims." Connotations 3.2 (1993/94): 123-28.

Discourses in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Laird, David. "Competing Discourses in The Winter's Tale." Connotations 4.1-2 (1994/95): 25-43.

Hunt, Maurice. "Modern and Postmodern Discourses in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale: A Response to David Laird." Connotations 5.1 (1995/96): 83-94.

Greenblatt, Stephen and David Laird. "'Competing Discourses in The Winter's Tale': Two Letters." Connotations 5.1 (1995/96): 125-27.

Laird, David. "An Answer to Maurice Hunt's 'Modern and Postmodern Discourses in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.'" Connotations 6.2 (1996/97): 246-250.

M. M. Mahood, Shakespeare's Wordplay: Some Reappraisals

Introducing the Subject.

Laird, David. "The Magic of M. M. Mahood's Shakespeare's Wordplay." Connotations 6.1 (1996/97): 3-7.

Hunt, Maurice. "Poetry vs. Plot in The Winter's Tale: Modernity and Morality in M. M. Mahood's Shakespeare's Wordplay." Connotations 6.1 (1996/97): 8-18.

Gibbons, Brian. "Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference: The Comedy of Errors and The Winter's Tale." Connotations 6.1 (1996/97): 19-40.

Muir, Kenneth. "Remembrance of Things Past." Connotations 6.1 (1996/97): 41-45.

Mahood, M. M. "'Shakespeare's Wordplay--Some Reappraisals': A Reply." Connotations 6.2 (1996/97): 135-37.

Advertising and Vindicating Eighteenth-Century Novels

Varney, Andrew. "Brightness and Beauty, Taste and Relish: Advertising and Vindicating Eighteenth-Century Novels." Connotations 3.2 (1993/94): 133-46.

Hammond, Brean S. "Romance and the Didactic in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: An Elaboration upon Andrew Varney." Connotations 3.3 (1993/94): 305-11.

Loveridge, Mark. "Tom Jones and the 'Clare-obscure': A Response to Andrew Varney, Bernard Harrison, and Lothar Cerny." Connotations 4.1-2 (1994/95): 136-50.

The Reader in Fielding

Cerny, Lothar. "Reader Participation and Rationalism in Fielding's Tom Jones." Connotations 2.2 (1992): 137-62.

Hammond, Brean S. "'Mind the Gap': A Comment on Lothar Cerny." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 72-78.

Hudson, Nicholas. "Fielding and the 'Sagacious Reader': A Response to Lothar Cerny." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 79-84.

Cerny, Lothar. "Fielding, Reception Theory and Rationalism: A Reply to Brean Hammond and Nicholas Hudson." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 85-89.

Harrison, Bernard. "Gaps and Stumbling-Blocks in Fielding: A Response to Cerny, Hammond and Hudson." Connotations 3.2 (1993/94): 147-72.

Cerny, Lothar. "'But the poet . . . never affirmeth': A Reply to Bernard Harrison." Connotations 3.3 (1993/94): 312-17.

Loveridge, Mark. "Tom Jones and the 'Clare-obscure': A Response to Andrew Varney, Bernard Harrison, and Lothar Cerny." Connotations 4.1-2 (1994/95): 136-50.

Toker, Leona. "If Everything Else Fails, Read the Instructions: Further Echoes of the Reception-Theory Debate." Connotations 4.1-2 (1994/95): 151-64.

Jane Austen: Mansfield Park

Toker, Leona. "Conspicuous Leisure and Invidious Sexuality in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 222-40.

Garcha, Amanpal. "Unsexing Austen: A Response to Leona Toker." Connotations 12.2-3 (2002/2003): 183-93.

Toker, Leona. "Love, That Four-Letter Word: A Response to Amanpal Garcha." Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 105-10.

Dracula and the Idea of Europe

Coundouriotis, Eleni. "Dracula and the Idea of Europe." Connotations 9.2 (1999/2000): 143-59.

Senf, Carol A. "A Response to 'Dracula and the Idea of Europe' by Eleni Coundouriotis." Connotations 10.1 (2000/2001): 47-58.

Dittmer, Jason. "Dracula and the Cultural Construction of Europe." Connotations 12.2-3 (2002/2003): 233-48.

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw

Lobb, Edward. "The Turn of the Screw, King Lear, and Tragedy." Connotations 10.1 (2000/2001): 31-46.

Brumm, Ursula. "Another View on The Turn of the Screw." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002): 91-7.

Lobb, Edward. "Tragedy in The Turn of the Screw: An Answer to Ursula Brumm." Connotations 12.1 (2002/2003): 67-71.

The Secret Garden and Wuthering Heights

James, Susan E. "Wuthering Heights for Children: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden." Connotations 10.1 (2000/2001): 59-76.

Tyler, Lisa. "Brontė and Burnett: A Response to Susan E. James." Connotations 12.1 (2002/2003): 61-66.

Silver, Anna Krugovoy. "Wuthering Heights and The Secret Garden: A Response to Susan E. James." Connotations 12.2-3 (2002/2003): 194-201.

Faulkner and Racism

Kinney, Arthur F. "Faulkner and Racism." Connotations 3.3 (1993/94): 265-278.

Knights, Pamela. "Faulkner's Racism: A Response to Arthur F. Kinney." Connotations 4.3 (1994/95): 283-299.

Cooley, John. "Faulkner, Race, Fidelity." Connotations 4.3 (1994/95): 300-312.

Cohen, Philip. "Faulkner and Racism: A Commentary on Arthur F. Kinney's 'Faulkner and Racism.'" Connotations 5.1 (1995/96) 108-118.

Kinney, Arthur F. "Author's Commentary." Connotations 5.1 (1995/96): 119-124.

Kinney, Arthur F. "Faulkner and Racial Mythology." Connotations 5.2-3 (1995/96): 259-275.

Brumm, Ursula. "Some Thoughts on Faulkner's 'Racism.'" Connotations 6.1 (1996/97): 98-102.

Wodehouse Parodist

Leimberg, Inge. "'Across the pale parabola of Joy': Wodehouse Parodist." Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 56-76.

Bowen, Barbara C. "A Response to ‘<<Across the pale parabola of Joy>>: Wodehouse Parodist.'" Connotations 13.3 (2003/2004): 271-73.

Leimberg, Inge. "An Answer to Barbara C. Bowen." Connotations 13.3 (2003/2004): 274-75.

White, Laura Mooneyham. "Another Response to '<<Across the pale parabola of Joy>>: Wodehouse Parodist.' Connotations 14.1-3 (2004/2005): 177-82.

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Prodigal"

Kearful, Frank J. "Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Prodigal' as a Sympathetic Parody." Connotations 12.1 (2002/2003): 14-34.

Costello, Bonnie. "A Response to Frank J. Kearful." Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 89-92.

Elizabeth Bishop: Language, Class, Gender

Ausubel, Jonathan. "Subjected People: Towards a Grammar for the Underclass in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry." Connotations 4.1-2 (1994/95): 83-97.

Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught. "Elizabeth Bishop and a Grammar for the Underclass? Response to Jonathan Ausubel's 'Subjected People' in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop," Connotations 4.1-2 (1994/95): 172-80.

Varnes, Kathrine. "Is it a Boy or a Girl? Gender as the Ever-Present Authority and Anxiety in Bishop Studies." Connotations 4.3 (1994/95): 313-18.

Dylan Thomas: Place, Voice, Rebirth

Bauer, Matthias. "But the Names Remain: Dylan Thomas's Return Journey." Connotations 8.1 (1998/99): 93-111.

Wardi, Eynel. "A Boy in the Listening: On Voice, Space, and Rebirth in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas." Connotations 9.2 (1999/2000): 190-209.

Bram, Sachar. "Summertime of the Dead Whispered the Truth of His Joy: A Response to Eynel Wardi." Connotations 10.1 (2000/2001): 77-86.

The American Adam in Late Mailer

Whalen-Bridge, John. "The Myth of the American Adam in Late Mailer." Connotations 5.2-3 (1995/96): 304-21.

Taylor, Gordon O. "Joan Didion and 'Company': A Response to John Whalen-Bridge." Connotations 6.2 (1996/97): 251-57.

Gary Snyder's Sense of Place

Whalen-Bridge, John. "Gary Snyder, Dōgen, and 'The Canyon Wren.'" Connotations 8.1 (1998/99): 112-24.

Patke, Rajeev S. "Response to 'Gary Snyder, Dōgen, and "The Canyon Wren."'" Connotations 8.2 (1998/99): 261-67.

Whalen-Bridge, John. "My Poet is Better than Your Poet: A Response to Rajeev Patke." Connotations 9.2 (1999/2000): 167-73.

Chung, Ling. "Allusions in Gary Snyder's "The Canyon Wren."" Connotations 12.1 (2002/2003): 83-92.

Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Mann

Latta, Alan D. "Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imagining Thomas Mann?" Connotations 9.3 (1999/2000): 316-29.

Symington, Rodney. "Response to Alan Latta, 'Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imaging Thomas Mann'." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002): 116-25.


Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

Niederhoff, Burkhard. "'Fortuitous Wit': Dialogue and Epistemology in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia." Connotations 11.1 (2001/2002): 42-59.

Müller-Muth, Anja. "It's wanting to know that makes us matter": Scepticism or Affirmation in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff." Connotations 12.2-3 (2002/2003): 281-91.

Niederhoff, Burkhard. "Who Shot the Hare in Stoppard's Arcadia? A Reply to Anja Müller-Muth." Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 170-78.


A. S. Byatt

Sturrock, June. "Angels, Insects, and Analogy: A. S. Byatt's 'Morpho Eugenia.'"Connotations 12.1 (2002/2003): 93-104.

Sorensen, Sue. "A. S. Byatt and the Life of the Mind: A Response to June Sturrock." Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 180-90.

Maack, Annegret. "Analogy and Contiguity: A. S. Byatt's The Biographer's Tale." Connotations 13.3 (2003/2004): 276-88.

Poetics and Conversation

Norrick, Neal R. "Poetics and Conversation" Connotations 10.2-3 (2000/2001): 243-267.

Carter, Ronald. "A Response to Neal R. Norrick." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 291-97.

Charney, Maurice. "Comment on Neal R. Norrick, 'Poetics and Conversation.'" Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 298-300.

Tan, Peter K W. "Conversation and Poetics: A Response to Neal R. Norrick." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 301-9.

Whalen-Bridge, John. "Conversation, Poetics, and the 'Found Poem': A Response to Neal R. Norrick." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 310-14.

The Art of Memory

Engel, William E. "Mnemonic Criticism & Renaissance Literature: A Manifesto." Connotations 1.1 (1991): 12-33.

Carruthers, Mary. "Inventional Mnemonics and the Ornaments of Style: The Case of Etymology." Connotations 2.2 (1992): 103-114.

Bergvall, Åke. "Of Mountains and Men: Vision and Memory in Wordsworth and Petrarch." Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 44-57.

Cerny, Lothar. "Dickens' A Christmas Carol: Revisiting and Reformation." Connotations 7.3 (1997/98): 255-72.

Engler, Bernd. "Nightmare Visions of Eden: Recollections of Home in Joyce Carol Oates's 'By the River.'" Connotations 7.3 (1997/98): 306-19.

Hermann, John P. "Paradise Remembered in Some Poems and Paintings." Connotations 7.3 (1997/98): 320-31.

Engel, William E. "Patterns of Recollections in Montaigne and Melville." Connotations 7.3 (1997/98): 332-54.

Engel, William E. "Classroom Capers: The Case for Using Mnemonics." Connotations 9.2 (1999/2000): 111-42.

Engel, William E. "What's New in Mnemology." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 241-61.

 

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