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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Nadine Gordimer | She aligned her stories with the difficult truth-telling of Chekhov
. |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov
, Hoffmansthal
, Ibsen
, and Strindberg
, while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw
, Yeats
, Masefield
, Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 69 |
Textual Production | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production... |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Leisure and Society | Jennifer Johnston | Although JJ
says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today, Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press. 67 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jolley | |
Literary responses | Mary Lavin | This volume brought ML
critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson
read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Shena Mackay | Allan Massie
wrote in The Scotsman that Mackay's prose skips and dances. He called her one of the best short-story tellers now practising, an heir of Chekhov
, who has the knack of taking the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Mansfield | This particular story, however, was adapted without acknowledgment from one by Chekhov
. It appears that KM
's conscience was not clear about this unmentioned debt. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Katherine Mansfield | KM
's stories have been credited (in Margaret Drabble
's Oxford Companion to English Literature) as the main channel through which the work of Chekhov
(a major and fully-acknowledged influence on her style) reached... |
Textual Production | Katherine Mansfield | Scholar Claire Tomalin
suspects that this refusal had to do with KM
's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov
in The Child-Who-Was-Tired. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Katherine Mansfield | KM
's letters and journals reflect an intensity of engagement with the detail of the world around her and with her own inner life: a blend of carefully nurtured skills, as well as, latterly, the... |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | This was chosen as one of the year's best books by the New York Times Book Review. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt
and John Updike
. Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov
or de Maupassant |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | Among a rich harvest of prizes and honours, AM
won the Giller Prize in both 1998 and 2004. In 2002 an Alice Munro Literary Garden, just beside the museum, was dedicated in Wingham, Ontario... |
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