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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anita Brookner | AB
published an ambitious art-critical work: The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot
, Stendhal
, Baudelaire
, Zola
, The BrothersGoncourt
, Huysmans. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Features | Anita Brookner | Its subjects are Ingres
, Delacroix
and Antoine-Jean Gros
, Musset
, Baudelaire
, Edmond
and Jules Goncourt
, Zola
and Huysmans
. That is, AB
has returned to take a different view of the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola
theory of hereditary destiny. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 308 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson. 68 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB
's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10. 10 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | This book's title has been called the first of many to reflect EB
's concern with places. Place, however, is not described but interrogated, in abstract and self-enquiring poems, like Paris, 7 a.m. This... |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | She later mentioned two youthful pieces on social issues involving literature: one on the potential damage done by a cheap popular press, Baudelaire
's view of l'infâmie de l'imprimerie, and the other on the... |
Education | Nina Bawden | NB
wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future... |
Education | Anna Akhmatova | At the age of ten Anna started attending school in Tsarskoe Selo, but fell ill a few months later and had to withdraw. She learnt French at home and by the age of thirteen... |
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