Orel, Harold. The Literary Achievement of Rebecca West. Macmillan.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart
's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death...
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
VW
's first two published novels, The Voyage Out and Night and Day, both work in the mode of social comedy to explore the experiences of a young woman coming to grips with her...
