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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 | Regina Maria Roche | Critic Amanda Burgess
sees this as perhaps the earliest example of the Irish national tale, and of a shift in RMR
's literary focus from England to Ireland which coincided with her own move in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Kazantzis | Sister Invention is a new name for or new concept of that creative power that has sometimes been called the Muse, which recalls the way St Francis
would address non-human beings as brothers. JK
writes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | A Beginner tells the story of Emma Jocelyn, a young woman who writes a novel called Miching Mallecho. (The title, drawn from Hamlet, elicits the following exchange between Emma and her aunt in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Sexton | She titled the volume from the words of Shakespeare
's character Macduff when he hears of the murder of his wife and children; this borrowing was suggested by James Wright
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 163 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | In his absence Camilla recovers, and three years later marries another rake, Sir Lusignan Dellbury; when his former adoration is cooled by marriage, she turns to her children for emotional satisfaction. He insists on her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 67 |
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 | P. D. James | As the work opens, Cordelia, slight of body, determined of will, savvy of mind Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne. 56 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The title comes from Shakespeare
's Prospero, in the speech in which he abjures his magic and breaks his staff. It plays on a traditional identification of the island of Corfu with the mysterious island... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | As often, Murdoch has a canonical text in mind for reworking: in this deeply unsettling novel it is Shakespeare
's Much Ado About Nothing. (One scene also recalls the book of Job.) But... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louise Page | At thirteen, profoundly affected by a Saturday matinee of John McGrath
's Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun and by the idea that theatre can change people's lives, she decided to be a playwright. Page, Louise. “Tissue”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, pp. 75-103. 103 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | The heroine suffers under not one but two bad mother-figures, neither of whom is her birth mother. It opens with Greville, a country curate whose spirit has been wounded by the vice and deceit of... |
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