McWilliam, Candia. A Case of Knives. Bloomsbury.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bryony Lavery | Ophelia: A Comedy, a rewriting of the play-within-a-play in Shakespeare
's Hamlet, mercilessly scrambles the plot, and has assimilated characters from other plays: Portia, Goneril, Lady Capulet, Juliet's Nurse, and Cleopatra's Charmian. Charmian... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Candia McWilliam | All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists McWilliam, Candia. A Case of Knives. Bloomsbury. 187 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF
novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | Again her title-page quotes Shakespeare
. The novel opens with a musical party in the housekeeper's room at Cassilwood House in Northumberland on the fifth of November at the time of the second Jacobite Rebellion... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Sexton | She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare
's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 163 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | In his absence Camilla recovers, and three years later marries another rake, Sir Lusignan Dellbury; when his former adoration is cooled by marriage, she turns to her children for emotional satisfaction. He insists on her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bottome | The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army
, Navy
, and Air Force
, the Women's Auxiliary Services
, and the lives of ordinary... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 67 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gillian Slovo | The epigraph is a statement about truth from Shakespeare
's Henry IV Part One. The protagonist of this novel, Sarah Barcant, was born in Smitsrivier, a dusty little South African town dominated by its... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The title comes from Shakespeare
's Prospero, in the speech in which he abjures his magic and breaks his staff. It plays on a traditional identification of the island of Corfu with the mysterious island... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Kendall | The title comes from Mercutio's speech about the Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare
's Romeo and Juliet; MK
quotes the opening of this speech on her title-page. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Burke | A quotation from Shakespeare
's The Tempest intruces an opening scene of storm and shipwreck on a lonely western coast. The only survivor, a six-month-old baby girl in a cradle, is rescued with a gold... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Blanche Warre Cornish | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
and Germaine de Staël
. The novel introduces its protagonist, William Milton, with generalisations about different types of people, especially those who refuse, out of pride or laziness, to compete for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Farjeon | These poems of love and separation have echoes of Shakespeare
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. British Book News. British Council. (1959): 551 |
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