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Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Parr Traill | Many of CPT
's early works were published with the Quaker publishing firm Harvey and Darton
. Peterman sees in these works the influence of Virgil
, Izaak Walton
, Mary Russell Mitford
, and Gilbert White
. New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research. 332 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | HC
underlines her argument by examining myth. The mythical image of Perseus before the Medusa is invoked to describe a male fear of woman, and she calls women the dark region of men's world, saying:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Seamus Heaney | The title refers to, and applies to poems about, family relationships (often those spanning generations), literary relatedness over still larger spans of time, and links between the human and other parts of the creation. In... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil
, Cicero
, Lucretius
, Horace
) and some in French (Rousseau
, Voltaire
, Marmontel
, and Manon Roland
). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson
. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Herberts | Further disconnected tales accumulate, one contrasting two priests, Father Coeurdroit (or Goodheart), who serves the poor rather than the Church, and Father Predatore, whose name is self-explanatory. The flow is finally interrupted by Proteus placing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Collier | Perhaps JC
's most pressing concern here is with women's issues: Women live most part of their lives in the office of Nursing, either Parents Husbands or Children. Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | The title-page quotes Virgil
. The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret. Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane. 1: xi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Irwin | AI
praises both her father
and his estate, the baroque mansion and landscaped grounds recently completed to the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh
. Carlisle appears as a practitioner of ideal gentlemanly retirement: having... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | SP
's masterful use of early writers and mythical belief-systems is exemplified in Seven Horizon Poems. Each of the poems snatches a separate grain of meaning, pressing into service to do so a wide... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Delany | Janice Thaddeus
discusses the prerogative MD
assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch
's Lives, who was forgiven... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | The protagonist of The Seven Sisters, published in 2002, is a woman in her fifties whose husband and grown children have all abandoned her. Her own somewhat grumpy impressions of her newly single life... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vita Sackville-West | The Land irresistibly recalls Virgil
's Georgics, the poem which gave its name to the genre of which it remains the best-known example; indeed, for some time VSW
intended to call her poem Georgics... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane West | JW
's preface invokes Shakespeare
, Virgil
, Homer
, and Sir Walter Scott
(she later adds Thomas Percy
) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vita Sackville-West | Virgil
, once thought of, became the poem's tutelary deity. He supplies an epigraph. VSW
opens in the epic manner—I sing the cycle of my country's year, / I sing the tillage Sackville-West, Vita. The Land. Heinemann. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ursula K. Le Guin | The first part of the novel relates, with a somewhat different focus, the tale told by Virgil
(in which Lavinia is a non-speaking character); the second reaches beyond that stage of the story. |
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