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Textual Production | Adrienne Rich | In this book AR
continues to reconstruct a feminist literary tradition through such essays as Vesuvius at Home: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, The Tensions of Anne Bradstreet, Woman Observing, Preserving, Conspiring, Surviving... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | First published in 1971 (Rich's collections often include writings issued previously), the essay When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision is described in 1988 by Elizabeth Meese
as still inform[ing] much of the best work... |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | AR
's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton. 51 |
Literary responses | Sylvia Plath | In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez
(who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time .... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | HO
identifies more as a reader than as a writer: she cites, alludes to, and rewrites a large number and variety of authors: Emily Dickinson
, Nella Larsen
, Louisa May Alcott
, and Simi Bedford |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | The novel is written from the perspective of an eight-year-old girl, Jessamy (Jess) Harrison (also called Wuraola in Nigeria), the only child of a Nigerian mother and a British father. The book chronicles Jess's loneliness... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | The collection's epigraph, open me carefully, which the publishers say was written on an envelope containing a letter from Emily Dickinson
to Susan Huntington Gilbert
, June 1852, emphasizes the influence of Dickinson on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | As an avid reader, HO
often cites other women writers—as well as men—as influential on her writing. She frequently cites and mentions both Louisa May Alcott
's Little Women and Emily Dickinson
, of whom... |
Education | Tillie Olsen | At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 27 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen
, Emily Dickinson
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Anna Akhmatova
, Anita Brookner
, and Margaret Atwood
, adding: Every... |
Author summary | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
, who lives in Northern Ireland, is well-regarded among contemporary poets writing in English. She began by writing a very private and reserved poetry. Using images from the home and from nature, she explored... |
Reception | Medbh McGuckian | Single Ladies was most enthusiastically reviewed by Anne Stevenson
in the Times Literary Supplement. She judged MMG
's talent too original to be spoiled by the praise or misunderstanding of critics: her successes are... |
Textual Features | Deborah Levy | The book and one of the chapters are headed with epigraphs, from Marguerite Duras
and Elena Ferrante
. Other writers or artists who are referred or appealed to include Emily Dickinson
, James Baldwin
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Kantaris | The poems here are full of places—real ones, like St Ives, Zennor, a rain-forest in Queensland, Australia; also the dystopias of Snapshotland (where everyone is happy all the time.) Kantaris, Sylvia. The Sea at the Door. Secker and Warburg. 4 |
Literary responses | Jennifer Johnston | This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein
in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we... |
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