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Textual Features | Jo Shapcott | Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer
, Swift
, Elizabeth Barrett
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Geoffrey Bateson
, and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick
. The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka
esque) Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2. 642 |
Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
Textual Features | Ali Smith | Although certainly located in the Brechtian
tradition of epic theatre, with its political resonances and self-referentiality, it is likewise identifiable as theatre of the absurd (as AS
points out), Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24. 317 |
Occupation | Hannah Arendt | Her next task was the struggle to secure publication for manuscripts left in her keeping and that of her husband by Walter Benjamin
. She also needed work, and became first a literary reviewer and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Willa Muir | After WM
finished translating Kafka
's short-story volume The Penal Colony, Stories and Short Pieces, she broke down from exhaustion: my ravaged nervous system began to make itself more felt: I found myself shivering... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Willa Muir | WM
had conceived and begun work on this novel by 1926, planning to set it in Montrose, her childhood town. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press. 125 Smith, Ali. “And Woman Created Woman: Carswell, Shepherd and Muir, and the Self-Made Woman”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 25-47. 43 |
Literary responses | Medbh McGuckian | Thomas McCarthy
wrote in the Cork Literary Review that this volume consolidates what is already an achieved and unique presence in Irish poetry. Her mind is astonishing—within her world Kafka
dines comfortably with Vita Sackville-West
. The Gallery Press. http://www.gallerypress.com/home.html. |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | Critic Edward Wagenknecht
, believing that the author's creative powers were at their peak at the very end of her life, Wagenknecht, Edward. Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction. Greenwood Press. 165 |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | MB
was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain
, Walter de la Mare
, Compton Mackenzie
, and Hugh Walpole
, who... |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | During the early part of ICB
's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer
was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger... |
Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
Literary responses | Jean Rhys | Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time... |
Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Blackwood | The novel is epistolary; its protagonist is called only K.—with perhaps some memory of the organizational victim-protagonist Josef K. in Franz Kafka
's The Trial (first translated into English by Willa
and Edwin Muir |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | Organized into thirty-four short chapters on ancient Greek love lyrics, this work is a scholarly analysis of eros as an elemental metaphysical structure of human life. In characteristically eccentric fashion, AC
begins her study of... |
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