Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Marina Warner | The editor notes that Warner's contribution follows a stratedy also used by Ovid
himself in deliberately confusing the story of Leto and her babies with other stories. Through the metamorphic nature of the narrative, she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon
. GHS
quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid
through Milton
and Wordsworth |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The first number, dated 1 December 1824, opens with The Editors to the Reader, in which Watts's three personae introduce themselves as sisters. They are very literary personifications, who possess, respectively, the actual spear... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | The prefatory poem To Her Book translates the traditional farewell from creator to creation (as written by Ovid
and imitated by Chaucer
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, and others, and popularly called Go, little book... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
shares the Scriblerian enthusiasm for mixing genres. She presents To Proteus, The Indisputable God of Change as A Dedication of the foregoing Poem, as a revolutionary Epistle, that shall still more accomplish'dly beautify never-indolent... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phillis Wheatley | PW
's poetry is technically adept; collected, it adapts the standard language of sentimentality and protest into a dignified and individual voice. She celebrates liberty of various kinds, praises the work of a black artist... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Smith's take on Iphis and Ianthe begins with sisters Anthea and Imogen listening to their grandfather's stories from when I was a girl in the women's suffrage movement: a sure induction into matters of gender... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7. F7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Whitney | IW
's verse has dash and pace; her stanzas are jaunty despite the ungainly poulter's measure. In the persona of jilted woman she eschews either pathos or revenge; her tirades are not without humour. She... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | She also says that it can be read as the mirror-image of her earliest novelistic theme: the child's relation to the mother. Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago. xi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ephelia | Not all the poems in the volume are written in Ephelia's voice (which adds an extra dimension to argument over the ascription of those written in other voices). It seems that Ephelia enjoyed ventriloquizing the... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 69, 70 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sappho | Interest in her sexuality was disseminated in Europe by Ovid
in his Heroides (or Heroines), a collection from the first century AD of fictional epistles, mostly from women (all of them except Sappho mythological)... |
Education | Melesina Trench | After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her... |
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