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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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | She dedicates this book for the muse this time, and explains that although it concerns purely fictional persons and events, it is in part inspired by Jean-Luc Steinmetz
's life of Mallarmé
, by Flaubert |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
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 | Ali Smith | The book's narrator is an unnamed, ungendered arborist in mourning for his or her unnamed, ungendered partner, a literary academic whose spectre lingers about the book both figuratively, in the form of unfinished lectures, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | GS
began work on these short stories while she was translating Flaubert
's Trois contes as an exercise.They have been reprinted (in a single volume with Tender Buttons) in the Signet Classics series, with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Grand | She again set her novel in her fictionalised version of Norwich, Morningquest. Of its three heroines, Angelica makes a moderately successful, though unconventional marriage to a man twenty years her senior to whom she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR
writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys... |
Education | Mary Lavin | It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot
's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)... |
death | George Sand | Her death was reported widely in the press. Flaubert
allegedly wrote in a letter that [a]t her funeral I cried like an ass, Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage. 10 |
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