Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Alison Lee
's book on AC
calls her an intellectual writer, whose novels refer to many literary, critical, and musical works, including the social and anthropological theories of Roland Barthes
, Claude Levi-Strauss
, and... |
Literary Setting | Angela Carter | Fevvers was hatched from an egg and raised in a brothel, and sold herself into slavery to help her foster family. With the touring circus, she migrates from London to the Siberian wilderness (it turns... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The Royal Shakespeare Company
produced CC
's Softcops, a revue-style drama influenced by Foucault
's Discipline and Punish. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 111-12 |
Friends, Associates | Hélène Cixous | HC
was a close personal friend of Jacques Derrida
— who, like her, was a French citizen and a Jew born in Algeria. “Columbia University Press advertisement for Hélène Cixous, ’Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint’, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic”. London Review of Books, p. 21. |
politics | Hélène Cixous | In the 1970s, along with Foucault
and others, HC
wrote in defence of Pierre Goldman
, a Jewish immigrant accused of murder on insufficient evidence. Her defence is a violent denunciation of prejudice in the... |
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