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Occupation | Walter Pater | WP
continued to contribute essays on literature and Renaissance art to periodicals, adding Macmillan's Magazine to his list of employers. 1885 saw the publication of his novel Marius the Epicurean. Two years later, he... |
Dedications | Ruth Padel | She dedicated this book to Myles Burnyeat
, Padel, Ruth. Whom Gods Destroy. Princeton University Press. v Padel, Ruth. Whom Gods Destroy. Princeton University Press. xiv |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | Andrew Cruikshank
spoke as Socrates
and Greg Hicks
as Plato
. The pair to this piece was Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion; the two were published as Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, 1986. |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | IM
published a book of philosophy, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato
Banished the Artists, which extended her explorations into beauty, art, and reality. Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24. 24 Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing. 39 |
Performance of text | Iris Murdoch | One of IM
's two Plato
nic dialogues, Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art, was given as a platform performance at the National Theatre
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 548 |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | In shaping her thought, her father
's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky
in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre
... |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | In this text, she sets out a Platonic conception of art derived from Plato
's Philebus, Phaedrus, and Symposium which explains his rejection of poets in his Republic. |
Textual Features | Naomi Mitchison | Her topic here is the concept of woman as property. Since the time of Plato
, she argues, western civilization, or patriarchy, has rested on this foundation. |
Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | Reckoning by numbers of reprints issued, Lud-in-the-Mist is HM
's most popular and enduring work. It was frequently re-issued between 1927 and 2000—especially, as Julia Briggs
notes, since 1970, and the vogue for J. R. R. Tolkien |
Literary responses | 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, http://U of A HSS. 253n106 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna Lyall | Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL
used to stay with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | DL
takes her title from Plato
's allegory about cave-dwellers who never see the outside world, but believe they can understand it from observing the shadows thrown on the walls of their cave. She applies... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson
, this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around... |
Textual Features | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | This epic poem, based on the work of Plato
as well as on the Le Plongeons' decades of research, relates the events that ADLP
believed to have occurred before Atlantis was destroyed. She thought that... |
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