Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Fullerton | The novel's title foregrounds GF
's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 90 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley
, Soeur Monique of Wordsworth
, An Unmarked Festival... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | MG
was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea
Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | In the preface, CEH
explains that her Manners for Women was met with such a kindly reception that I am encouraged to follow it up with the present little volume. Humphry, Charlotte Eliza. A Word to Women. James Bowden. preface |
Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Wentworth | Though the Feminist Companion says that Miss Silver is a character [i]n the mould of Agatha Christie
's Miss Marple, she actually predates Miss Marple by two years. She is a former governess who now... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | Her central figure, Alfred White, a park-keeper in a London borough based on that of Brent, is an old-fashioned ex-soldier who combines integrity, compassion, and intense pride in his job, with a violent temper... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Wentworth | This classic story opens with Rachel Treherne, unmarried and in her thirties, coming in a state of acute anxiety to consult Miss Silver at the latter's home, which is also her office. Rachel's colouring should... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Douglas | People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elinor Glyn | Whereas on love EG
sounds overwhelmingly passionate, on marriage she sounds noticeably cynical. In a section of the book devoted to the question, Why Marriage is Often a Failure, she suggests that because marriage... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | The historical Sappho
had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne
; Michael Field
's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho... |
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