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Cultural formation | Mary Wesley | MW
was influenced in her religious thinking by several writers, including Simone Weil
and Graham Greene
. The novelist Antonia White
stood as godmother to them both, and they seem to have fallen in mostly... |
Education | Simone de Beauvoir | Sent to a private school, the deeply Catholic Adeline Désir Institute
, Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001. 67 Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Antonia White | While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department
, AW
met Graham Greene
, Simone Weil
, and Kathleen Raine
. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985. 137 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | It was influenced, said Murdoch's ex-student Jennifer Dawson
, by the thinking of Simone Weil
's L'attente de Dieu. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , 2001–2002, pp. 52-3. 53 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | Here AR
studies various global and national issues of the past and present, such as the Persian Gulf War, poverty, and the struggles of homosexuals, and Jewish-, African-, and Irish-Americans. Florence Howe
has judged that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | In shaping her thought, her father
's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky
in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre
... |
Reception | Anne Conway | Two of AC
's most recent editors, Coudert
and Corse
, more forcefully assert that hers is the most interesting and original philosophical treatise written by a woman in the seventeenth century Conway, Anne. “Introduction”. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. vii - xxxiii. xxix |
Reception | Hildegarde of Bingen | In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination... |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | Here the quotation of Æschylus
' Hymn to Zeus by the character Max Lejour (modelled on the scholar Eduard Fraenkel
, whose famous Aeschylus seminar IM
had attended) focuses the book's argument that liberal-humanist optimism... |
Textual Production | Stevie Smith | SS
's list of requisites for a critic or reviewer goes like this: Attention, impartiality, and no regard for age or sex. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage, 1983. 173 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Carson | The book opens with a sequence of poems, Stops, about love for parents, recognition of approaching death, the the frailty of trivial detail weighted with emotional implication: To my mother, / love / of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Seamus Heaney | In these lectures SH
again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at... |
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