Connotations 18.1-3 (2008/2009)
Connotations 18.1-3 (2008/2009) Connotations 18.1-3 (2008/2009)
Isabelle, a Man from Algeria: A Response to Verna A. Foster LAURA RICE 259 Peter Ackroyd’s English Music as Romance of Englishness: A Response to Susan Ang JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU 276
Roads Not Taken Connotations Vol. 18.1-3 (2008/2009) The Connotations symposia are a biennial event, organized by a scholarly society that has formed around Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. Members of the society are asked to offer suggestions for conference topics, and are then to vote on them. Still, the symposia are not general membership meetings of the society but anyone interested in the theme is invited to submit a proposal. The topic of our next symposium (July 31 to August 4, 2011) will be “Poetic Economy.” The one who first suggested “Roads Not Taken” as a topic is my coeditor Burkhard Niederhoff, whose ideas and suggestions will be reflected on these pages. Inge Leimberg, our founding editor, Angelika Zirker, our far more than assistant editor, Burkhard Niederhoff and the undersigned then set about to select the proposals that led to an invitation to the conference hotel of Tübingen University in Freudenstadt in the Black Forest, where we met in August 2009. Our criteria, of course, had to do with the ideas of the subject we had developed in several meetings and discussions, and which finally made their way into the proposal for support by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, whom we would like to thank for their generous funding of the symposium and of the editing of this issue which contains a first selection of revised conference papers. The topic of our conference was not “roads in literature,” for the simple reason that we might then have just as well called it “literature.” Neither is the topic just “decisions” or “decision-making processes” in literature. A variant on the topic of Hercules at the crossroads does not necessarily mean that the road not taken is actually relevant to the work in question. Some of the speakers will remember messages in which we asked them: is the road not taken really more than just a possibility mentioned; does it actually play a role in the texts you have chosen for discussion? Thus, whereas at first the
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Roads Not Taken<br />
<strong>Connotations</strong><br />
Vol. <strong>18.1</strong>-3 (<strong>2008</strong>/<strong>2009</strong>)<br />
The <strong>Connotations</strong> symposia are a biennial event, organized by a scholarly<br />
society that has formed around <strong>Connotations</strong>: A Journal for Critical<br />
Debate. Members of the society are asked to offer suggestions for<br />
conference topics, and are then to vote on them. Still, the symposia are<br />
not general membership meetings of the society but anyone interested<br />
in the theme is invited to submit a proposal. The topic of our next<br />
symposium (July 31 to August 4, 2011) will be “Poetic Economy.”<br />
The one who first suggested “Roads Not Taken” as a topic is my coeditor<br />
Burkhard Niederhoff, whose ideas and suggestions will be<br />
reflected on these pages. Inge Leimberg, our founding editor, Angelika<br />
Zirker, our far more than assistant editor, Burkhard Niederhoff and<br />
the undersigned then set about to select the proposals that led to an<br />
invitation to the conference hotel of Tübingen University in Freudenstadt<br />
in the Black Forest, where we met in August <strong>2009</strong>. Our criteria, of<br />
course, had to do with the ideas of the subject we had developed in<br />
several meetings and discussions, and which finally made their way<br />
into the proposal for support by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, whom<br />
we would like to thank for their generous funding of the symposium<br />
and of the editing of this issue which contains a first selection of revised<br />
conference papers.<br />
The topic of our conference was not “roads in literature,” for the<br />
simple reason that we might then have just as well called it “literature.”<br />
Neither is the topic just “decisions” or “decision-making<br />
processes” in literature. A variant on the topic of Hercules at the<br />
crossroads does not necessarily mean that the road not taken is actually<br />
relevant to the work in question. Some of the speakers will remember<br />
messages in which we asked them: is the road not taken really<br />
more than just a possibility mentioned; does it actually play a role in<br />
the texts you have chosen for discussion? Thus, whereas at first the
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