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Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | These novellas follow at more than one remove writers further back than Painter (Boccaccio
, Matteo Bandello
, Marguerite de Navarre
, and Chaucer
) in refashioning and retelling traditional stories. Most dated back... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Byron | Chaucer
's depiction of Rumour's house in the sky in the Hous of Fame inspired her to think of a poetic space open to all voices, currents, weathers. |
Leisure and Society | Jeanette Winterson | Believing strongly that no writer in English can be ignorant of English literature, JW
told an interviewer that she reads or re-reads for about five hours a day, choosing sometiimes obscure authors from Chaucer
to... |
Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found this method of compiling stories (the method of Boccaccio
, Marguerite de Navarre
, and Chaucer
) effective for stringing together a number of diverse tales told... |
Occupation | William Morris | Between then and 1898 it produced fifty-three books. WM
's The Story of the Glittering Plain (April 1891) was the first. The fortieth was the famous Chaucer
(1896) containing eighty-seven wood-cuts by Edward Burne-Jones
... |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
Occupation | Petrarch | The acclaim that Petrarch won in his lifetime shifted smoothly into a high reputation after his death. The first English author to refer to him was Chaucer
. Nicholl, Charles. “On the Sixth Day”. London Review of Books, Vol. 41 , No. 3, pp. 23-6. 24 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Isham | Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |
Occupation | Giovanni Boccaccio | GB
's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used... |
Author summary | Wendy Cope | WC
is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | In 1924 Frederic
and Bertha Goudy
printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press
, using the very hand press that William Morris
had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 320 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Christine de Pisan | Christine de Pisan
's Proverbes moraulx, written in about 1400 for the education of her son, were reprinted in Richard Pynson
's edition of Chaucer
as The Morall proverbes of Christyne. Summit, Jennifer. Lost Property. University of Chicago Press. 87, 92 |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The narrator for most of the story is Alfred Gaveston, son of the actual Piers Gaveston
who is notorious in history as the favourite of Edward II
. (Piers Gaveston in fact had one or... |
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