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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young
, the Bible, Macpherson
's Ossian and Homer
's Odyssey, Sterne
and Smollett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | AG
is a conscious artist as a letter-writer, playing with the influence not only of Richardson
but also, in later years, of Hugh Blair
's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The earliest letters... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
Textual Production | H. D. | Her admirer Harold P. Collins
persuaded her to omit a very bad paraphrase of Homer
in sketchy free verse. Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins. 148 |
Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | On holidays her father
taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Ellen Harrison | Myths of the Odyssey represents one of Harrison's earliest efforts to use non-literary works of art, especially painted vases, to chart the formation of Greek myths. Here, she positions scenes from translated versions of Homer |
Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | In Prolegomena Harrison argues against the dominant contemporary thesis that Greek religion was based originally and primarily on Homer
's Olympian myths. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 164-5 |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation... |
Education | Jane Johnson | She was without formal education. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. 162 Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing. 31 |
Textual Production | Judith Kazantzis | JK
published a book-length sequence of poems in many voices from classical epic: The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey of Homer, with etchings by Jacqueline Morreau
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (7 May 1999): 35 Judith Kazantzis. http://www.judithkazantzis.com/. |
Textual Production | Judith Kazantzis | JK
published her translation from the ninth book of Homer
's Odyssey, entitled In Cyclops' Cave. Judith Kazantzis. http://www.judithkazantzis.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. E. L. | LEL recalled devising poetry during her early childhood in East Barnet, where she moved at the age of seven: I cannot remember the time when composition in some shape or other was not a... |
Occupation | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | Among the subjects most often canvassed at de Lambert's salon was the querelle des anciens et modernes (the battle of the ancients and moderns). Its leading figures (Anne Dacier
, translator of Homer
into... |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ursula K. Le Guin | Though she called her blog trivially personal, the titles printed here include Papa H (on Homer
) and On Anger (including motivating political anger) as well as The Annals of Pard (her cat). |
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