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death | Seamus Heaney | When asked, in a seventieth birthday interview on Raidió Teilifís Éireann
, what he might like as an epitaph, he quoted the words which Sophocles
gives the Messenger reporting on the hero's death in Oedipus... |
Education | Anne Lister | As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes
, Sophocles
, Juvenal
) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler
's Essay on... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia read Aeschylus
, Homer
, Sophocles
, and Plato
, among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case
, who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Like most of AS
's work, this novel is playfully self-reflexive in its adherence to typical story structure. In a formulaic breakdown of essential narrative parts, The Accidental has a prescribed Beginning, Middle... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | In an compelling refusal to expurgate the Antigone story for young readers, Smith fully embraces its motifs of death and decay through the voice of the onlooking crow, whose hunger for the remnants of the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | According to Linden Peach
, intertextuality is a prominent feature of this novel, which is a rewriting of the Oedipus story most famously handled by Sophocles
. Like Oedipus, Desiderio is instructed by his father... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | Padel's essay centres on Steiner's The Death of Tragedy and his monograph on the Antigone of Sophocles
, but it ranges widely. She seeks to grasp here Steiner's opinions and the way they changed over... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | In the opening scene of Darkness and Day, two old friends discuss the approaching death of one of them. The plot is a version of the Oedipus story: Bridget Lovat kills her mother and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Kane | The language, entirely spare and unadorned, links the play on the one hand to contemporary television reports and on the other to the ancient mode of tragedy. Ian with his eyes put out unaffectedly recalls... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | Phippy, the skinny, inadequate, lower-class Hugh Minden Philipson, makes a progress from school . . . . . . to school Larkin, Philip, and Rodney Fitzgerald. Incidents from Phippy’s Schooldays. Editors Allen, Brenda and James Acheson, Juvenilia Press, 2002. 37 |
Literary responses | Caroline Clive | Despite the universal opinion that the sequel was decidedly weaker than the original, it nevertheless did well enough to go into several editions. The Saturday Review noted that it was a book which, even if... |
Occupation | Anne Carson | In 2012 AC
took the chorus part in a staged reading of her own Antigonick (adapted from Sophocles
), 2012. A few years later she took the title role with great fierceness in |
Performance of text | Liz Lochhead | Following LL
's Medea, her Thebans (adapted from Sophocles
and Euripides
and to a lesser extent from Æschylus
) opened at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival
. Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern, 2003. title-page, prelims |