qtd. in
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14. 11
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Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's... |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Carter herself called this book a juicy, overblown, exploding gothic lollipop. qtd. in Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14. 11 |
Textual Features | Zadie Smith | ZS
set Picnic, Lightning, her second story in The May Anthology of 1997, amid louche society in Paris. She acknowledges the influence of Nabokov
(whose most famous narrator, Humbert Humbert, has a mother... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mavis Gallant | The essays comprising part one cover such topics as the 1968 student protests in Paris, the writer Marguerite Yourcenar
, and the case of Gabrielle Russier
, while the reviews of part two take... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Zadie Smith | Her subjects include George Eliot
's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston
, Franz Kafka
, Vonnegut
and Salinger
as cult figures, Roland Barthes
and Vladimir Nabokov
(pitted against each other as attacker and booster of... |