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Homer
Standard Name: Homer
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Rosemary Sutcliff | The Economist reviewed Black Ships, finding it intellectually taxing for children, but useful in sorting out some of Homer
's complications and digressions. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Teft | She praises Pope
, reproves Richardson
for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers... |
Textual Features | Emma Tennant | She describes her father's house on the island (set just above the bay where in Homer
's Odyssey Ulysses met Nausicaa), and a number of local characters like Maria the cook and her husband Thodoros. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Trotter | The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT
wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of... |
Literary responses | Alice Walker | This book was hammered by Michiko Kakutani
in the New York Times as a compendium of inanities. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 457 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosamund Marriott Watson | In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted... |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | A play for young people by TW
opened at the “My Father, Odysseus, Interview with Timberlake Wertenbaker”. Unicorn. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane West | JW
's preface invokes Shakespeare
, Virgil
, Homer
, and Sir Walter Scott
(she later adds Thomas Percy
) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry |
Cultural formation | Phillis Wheatley | PW
was a black African, whose colour dictated all her life-experiences as a slave in the USA (a British colony during much of her life) from the moment when, at the age of seven or... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia read Aeschylus
, Homer
, Sophocles
, and Plato
, among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case
, who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over... |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Erich Auerbach
chose a passage from early in To the Lighthouse, which he calls The Brown Stocking, to close his influential work Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946 (which... |
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