Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
's Richard II about the deposing of a king. The novel opens with precision: at five o'clock on 22 June 1791, with aristocrats fearful for their fate in the aftermath of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Reading myths, she finds, she has equal difficulty inhabiting characters of hyper-masculine men and of oppressed women: she wants instead to read about women who love themselves, who are alive, who are not debased, overshadowed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Jane Worboise | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
on the marriage of true minds. This novel explores various motives for marriage and traces the experience of a group of married couples. It begins with the five Miss Phipson sisters... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gillian Slovo | The epigraph is a statement about truth from Shakespeare
's Henry IV Part One. The protagonist of this novel, Sarah Barcant, was born in Smitsrivier, a dusty little South African town dominated by its... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. qtd. in L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 263-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Wickham | This collection represents a significant departure from AW
's earlier work in its adoption of literary conventions. Peopled with jesters, knights, witches, and shepherdesses, the poems in this volume incorporate historical (Anglo-Saxon and Elizabethan), mythological... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke | This play provoked Samuel Daniel
to respond with The Tragedy of Cleopatra (published in another work in 1594), and influenced Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS. 253n106 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | This title-page quotes from William Falconer
and the Latin poet Martial
. The novel opens on the usually flighty Philippa Egerton contemplating her imminent marriage to Sir Thomas Clervaux, whose chief talent is for dancing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | RP
takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jennifer Johnston | Its story relates in flashback the life of strong-minded, unsuccessful writerConstance Keating, who has always been something of a misfit to her Irish family. The book opens with a letter she sends to Jacob Weinberg... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | The central plot features the relationship between two writers: Bradley Pearson, whose severe standards have caused him to suffer from writer's block, and Arnold Baffin, a more facile and popular author, discovered by Pearson. Baffin's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | According to Linden Peach
, the writings of Bertolt Brecht
and Mikhail Bakhtin
influenced AC
's notions of theatre and the carnivalesque, which are central features of Nights at the Circus. However, Peach went... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes are from Nicholas Rowe
's Jane Shore and an unidentified old play. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Dame Rebecca Berry. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green , 1827, 3 vols. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | CG
calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar
, or George Colman
school. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 28 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Kelly | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
: lines from Othello and Macbeth, about prison and murder. The heroine, Ethelinde, grows up in a poor cottage (among woods and pastures, close by the ruined priory in... |
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