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21 September 2010
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | |
Literary responses | Charlotte Guest | Later negative reaction has been categorized by Erica Obey
: many professional scholars dismiss Guest as an amateur, while Welsh scholars in particular call her work cultural appropriation or suggest that she was a mere... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Seamus Heaney | In a twenty-page introduction, SH
explains what this poem meant for him. He discusses its diction, and the way that fragments of its language have survived, embedded in, for instance, the speech of Heaney's own... |
Textual Production | Ursula K. Le Guin | While Le Guin's children were small, she wrote from the time they went to bed until she could no longer stay awake herself. Her writing hours later shifted to school hours, and remained always earlier... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ursula K. Le Guin | This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain
, Tolstoy
, J. R. R. Tolkien
(Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi
the tribal native American whom her father studied and... |
Reception | Hope Mirrlees | Reckoning by numbers of reprints issued, Lud-in-the-Mist is HM
's most popular and enduring work. It was frequently re-issued between 1927 and 2000—especially, as Julia Briggs
notes, since 1970, and the vogue for J. R. R. Tolkien |
Residence | Ruth Pitter | C. S. Lewis informed them they were now living in the part of England that J. R. R. Tolkien
called the Middle Kingdom. They did not own a car, so were dependent on local buses. |
Instructor | Mary Renault | Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded... |
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