Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | Our Lady of the Broken Heart, the garden play mentioned in the volume title, is set in a public Italian garden during the seventeenth century, or any time. Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin, 1888. 115 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Gerard | The title is a phrase applied to Shakespeare
's Perdita in The Winter's Tale. This book, like others by DG
, looks at relations between English and middle European characters. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Kelly | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
: lines from Othello and Macbeth, about prison and murder. The heroine, Ethelinde, grows up in a poor cottage (among woods and pastures, close by the ruined priory in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Melesina Trench | Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862. 162-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson
(with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. qtd. in L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 263-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | Shakes
Versus Shav, a puppet play by GBS
dramatizing a confrontation between the two playwrights, was first produced at Malvern by the Waldo Lanchester Marionette Theatre
. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxx Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Pix | MP
's Catherine is not (like Shakespeare's) Katherine Parr, but is the French-born widow of Henry V
, who formed an illicit union in about 1429 with the Welsh prince Owen Tudor
, which produced... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | This title-page quotes from William Falconer
and the Latin poet Martial
. The novel opens on the usually flighty Philippa Egerton contemplating her imminent marriage to Sir Thomas Clervaux, whose chief talent is for dancing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | According to Linden Peach
, the writings of Bertolt Brecht
and Mikhail Bakhtin
influenced AC
's notions of theatre and the carnivalesque, which are central features of Nights at the Circus. However, Peach went... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | This novel covers a historical span from Christopher Columbus
through scenes in New Hampshire in 1645 to the lives of the twin heroine and hero, descendants of Columbus, ten generations after him in Philadelphia in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jennifer Johnston | Its story relates in flashback the life of strong-minded, unsuccessful writerConstance Keating, who has always been something of a misfit to her Irish family. The book opens with a letter she sends to Jacob Weinberg... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Reading myths, she finds, she has equal difficulty inhabiting characters of hyper-masculine men and of oppressed women: she wants instead to read about women who love themselves, who are alive, who are not debased, overshadowed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
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