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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | The volume reprints poems from each of HD
's previous collections. The new poems, set in many different places, tend to deal with moments of emotion, often preceding rather than following action. Several reflect her... |
Reception | Eva Figes | An interview with EF
appears in Olga Kenyon
's Women Writers Talk, 1989, and she is one of those whose work is included in Bryan Cheyette
's anthology Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
Literary responses | Mavis Gallant | On the subject of Gallant's first The New Yorker story, Madeline's Birthday, Mordecai Richler
—signing his name as Mordy—wrote to Douglas M. Gibson
to say i saw mavis's story in the new yorker. i'm... |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes... |
Publishing | Pamela Hansford Johnson | A volume appeared as Six Proust
Reconstructions of PHJ
's dramatic sketches written for the radio, with the cast-lists and excerpts from the musical scores. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 399 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Having bought an entire set of Proust
when one of her books brought in more money than usual, midway in the second world war, PHJ
lectured on him as one of her favourite subjects. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 201 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The novelist-narrator, Christine Jackson (whom PHJ
says she based on herself), looks back from the present day on her young life in Clapham in the 1920s. Her work as a shorthand-typist, her aspirations to be... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Each takes as its central character a personage from Proust
, and for each PHJinvents a fresh yet perfectly harmonious setting for the scene: thus Mme Verdurin is shown entertaining the Germans in 1941... |
Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
Textual Production | Julia Kristeva | JK
's next work of criticism was entitled Le Temps sensible: Proust
et l'expérience littéraire. Book Review Index. Gale Research. Volat, Hélène. Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography. http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~hvolat/kristeva/kristeva.htm. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kristeva | Proust provides JK
with new approaches to many of her recurring interests: the book is heterogeneous, without any organising thread of argument. She takes a psychoanalytical view of Proust
's fictional characters, and discusses his... |
Textual Production | Julia Kristeva | These are Le féminin et le sacré (which arose out of a correspondence on these topics with Catherine Clément
), and was translated by Jane Marie Todd
as The Feminine and the Sacred, 2001);... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marghanita Laski | ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press. 5 |
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