This novel features sunny Dorset in summer as its predecessor featured city fog in winter; it reflects the intensive study of Shakespeare that IM
had undertaken on finishing The Red and the Green. It...
Intertextuality and Influence
Alison Fell
An introduction by the fictional scholar Geoffrey Montague-Pollock attributes scholarly rigour to the also fictional literal translator, Arye Blower, and to AFliterary flair.
Fell, Alison. The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro. Serpent’s Tail.
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It offers a spoof account of the original eleventh-century...
Timeline
About 1007: Genji Monogatari, usually translated into...
Writing climate item
About 1007
Genji Monogatari, usually translated into English as The Tale of Genji, was written by a Japanese courtier now generally known as Murasaki Shikibu
or sometimes Lady Murasaki.
