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Debates

This links in the list of debates published in Connotations will take you to an entrance page for each debate on which all the contributions in the respective debate are listed and linked. The debates below are listed in chronological order of the primary text they deal with.

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

Medieval Visions of the Other World

Piers Plowman

Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame

Peter Martyr and his Translator Richard Eden - Reading Culture in Translation

Reason in English Renaissance Humanism

Marlowe's Edward II

Doctor Faustus and His Books

Arthur Golding's Translation of Ovid

Paronomasia from Sidney to Herbert

Mnemonics and Renaissance Literature

Spenser and Ireland

Spenser's Parody

Spenser as Prometheus: The Monstrous and the Idea of Poetic Creation

E. K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading

Elizabethan Drama and Festival

John Lyly's Poetic Economy

Shakespeare and New Historicism

If and it in Shakespeare

The End of Editing Shakespeare

The Opening of All's Well That Ends Well

The Character of Lucius in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice

The Last Moments of Hamlet

Shakespeare's Falstaff as Parody

The Pivotal Position of Henry V in the Rise and Fall of Shakespeare's Prose

Religion in King John

"The Phoenix and Turtle": Single Natures Double Name

Maria's Riddle in Twelfth Night

Competing Discourses in The Winter's Tale

Homonyms before and after Lexical Standardization

Character Names in The Winter's Tale

Old England and Shakespeare's Nostalgia

Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Christian Premises

Catholic Shakespeare?

Concepts of Honor in Shakespeare

Patterns of Antonomasia in Shakespeare

M. M. Mahood, Shakespeare's Wordplay

Crucifixion Imagery in Paradise Lost

Religous Literary Style in Milton's Paradise Lost

Carnival and the Grotesque in Ben Jonson's Plays

John Marston's The Malcontent

The Origins of the English Laureate Micro-Epic

The Historical Context of John Ford's Plays

Oppositions in Thomas Heywood's The English Traveller

Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Donne's Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word

Henry Vaughan's "Isaac's Marriage"

Agency in Vaughan's Sacred Poetry

Women on the Restoration Stage

Defoe and "The Other"

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year

Parody, Satire and Sympathy in Don Quixote and Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels and Don Quixote de la Mancha

Pope's Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock

The Reader in Fielding

Advertising and Vindicating Eighteenth-Century Novels

Metafictional Discourse in Early American Literature

Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, Nature and the Sublime

Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"

Jane Austen: Mansfield Park

Jane Austen: Mansfield Park

Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"

Narrative Techniques in Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier

Henry James's The Turn of the Screw as Tragedy

Hawthorne and Poetic Economy

The Narrator in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes

The Secret Garden and Wuthering Heights

Decadence and Renewal in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend

Dracula and the Idea of Europe

Surprise in Alice

Emerson and Milton

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

W. B. Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter"

William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham

Wilfred Owen's "Strange Meeting"

Faulkner and Racism

Evelyn Waugh's Humanism in A Handful of Dust

Paronomasia in the poems of Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop

Image and Imagism

The Place Revisited in T. S. Eliot

The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby

Wodehouse Parodist

T.H. White's The Once And Future King

Miles Franklin's My Career Goes Bung

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Prodigal"

Elizabeth Bishop: Language, Class, Gender

Patrick Hamilton

Mary Butts and the Return of the Nativist

Pauline Smith's Short Stories

Tropes of Falling, Rising, Standing in Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle

Poetics and Politics in Robert Lowell

Dylan Thomas: Place, Voice, Rebirth

Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion

Discourse in Pinter

The American Adam in Mailer and Didion

Gary Snyder's Sense of Place

Elegance and Poetic Economy

Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Mann

Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

Kazuo Ishiguro and Tom Stoppard

Arthur Kopit's The Hero in Context

Joyce Carol Oates's "By the River"

Timberlake Wertenbaker's New Anatomies

Don Juan Between the Cultures: Derek Walcott and Tirso de Molina

Peter Ackroyd's English Music

Literary Allusions and Poetic Economy

Contemporary Feminist Drama

Trauma, Writing, and Simulated Orality in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Myth in the Contemporary American Theatre

A. S. Byatt

Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey

The Re-representation of African Identity in Kojo Laing's Fiction

The Ethics of Otherness in Ian McEwan's Saturday

Parody—and Self-Parody in David Mamet

Parody as Cultural Memory in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2

Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield's Voice and Zen Meditation

Artists as Parents

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan's "Notes from the Body"

Sujata Bhatt's "The Hole in the Wind"

Chinese Diaspora Writing

Poetics and Conversation

The Author's Name as an Object of Paronomasia

Ambiguity and the Poets

Clones and Doubles

The Economy of Literary Interpretation

The Loss of the Artist's Agency

On the Reception of Poetry

On writing in Second Person

Poetic Economy: Redundancy and Ellipsis

Perspective, Vision and Memory: Mountain-Climbing in Literature