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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rachel Hunter | Rachel, an heiress, gives her heart to a poor man whose family oppose the match for fear of being seen as mercenary. She is also something of a social rebel, a feminist (fond of gender-bending... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ngaio Marsh | The theatre where the action unfolds is the Dolphin, from Marsh's novel of 1966. The personages include a range of life-larger actors including a mysterious young New Zealander of Maori blood and the looming, awful... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country Ward, Mary Augusta. Helbeck of Bannisdale. Editor Worthington, Brian, Penguin. 86 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jessie Russell | The satiric Our Side of the Question, dedicated to the Sarcastic Bachelors' Society counters misogynistic views of matrimony with reference to Shakespeare
's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. JR
notes wryly that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa Anne Meredith | Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier
, Alphonse Daudet
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, or Swinburne
, she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The book's first and longest piece, The History of an Enthusiast, is strongly influenced by Germaine de Staël
's novel Corinne; ou, L'Italie. Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 67 , No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73. 451 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
on the divinity that shapes our ends. EST
's preface (dated at Chaldon on 25 June) Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. Rosalind de Tracey. Charles Dilly. 1: vi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Atwood | Several stories in Good Bones delight in giving something to say for themselves to literary characters generally understood to be beyond sympathy (the stepmother, the ugly sister, Gertrude in Shakespeare
's Hamlet). Others employ... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | In the opening scene a woman psychiatrist, Dr Hildegard Wolf, is consulted by a man claiming to be the famously missing Lord Lucan
. Inveterate gambler Lucky Lord Lucan
(Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bernardine Evaristo | BE
substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family... |
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