The Literary Influences of Jim Wayne Miller

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen Miller
Keyword(s):  
Literary Influences ◽  
Jim Wayne Miller

Kate O'Brien and Virginia Woolf: Common Ground

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Alignments ◽  
Literary Influences ◽  
Kate O'brien

Convergences in the work of Kate O'Brien and Virginia Woolf range from literary influences and political alignments, to a shared approach to narrative point of view, structure, or conceptual use of words. Common ground includes existentialist preoccupations and tropes, a pacifism which did not hinder support for the left in the Spanish Civil War, the linking of feminism and decolonization, an affinity with anarchism, the identification of the normativity of fascism, and a determination to represent deviant sexualities and affects. Making evident the importance of the connection, O'Brien conceived and designed The Flower of May (1953), one of her most experimental and misunderstood novels, to paid homage to Woolf's oeuvre.

Literary Influences

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Rachael McLennan
Keyword(s):  
Literary Influences

Literary Influences

2005 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Jane Stabler
Keyword(s):  
Literary Influences

Literary Influences

2012 ◽  
pp. 325-334
Author(s):  
Judith P. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Literary Influences

‘It was your Wickedness my Love to Win’

Aries ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Chris Giudice
Keyword(s):  
Bona Fide ◽  
Literary Influences

Abstract This paper will deal with one of the earliest phases of Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) life: his university years spent writing Decadent poetry. Contrary to the vast majority of previous critics, biographer John Symonds in primis, I will set forth the hypothesis that, far from being an amateur and inconsistent lyricist, Crowley fit perfectly within the British Decadent milieu of his day, and should also be considered a bona fide Decadent poet, alongside his more famous colleagues Arthur Symons and Ernest Dowson. Through an analysis of Crowley’s Cambridge years, literary influences, and of the poet’s own verse, it will be my resolve to prove this hypothesis and situate the figure of Crowley qua poet as a legitimate representative of the Naughty Nineties, and to position his poetic output within the already accepted canon of British Decadent verse.

“Literary Influences”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel García Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Latin American ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
The South ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Decisive Influence ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Influences

This chapter presents an interview with Gabriel García Márquez, who talks about his literary influences, including William Faulkner. García Márquez cites Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis as the fundamental influence on his writing. A decisive influence on him, according to García Márquez, is Oedipus Rex. He also discusses Faulkner's influence on him, claiming that they share similar experiences. In particular, García Márquez reveals that Faulkner's whole world—the world of the South which he writes about—was very like his world, that it was created by the same people. He also cites the fact that Faulkner is in a way a Latin American writer whose world is that of the Gulf of Mexico.

Distant Cousin Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite) and Scottish Scene

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-126
Author(s):  
William K. Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
Original Research ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Literary Influences ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A quarter of this monograph is devoted to Gibbon’s masterpiece, the trilogy A Scots Quair, approached as a strategically integrated volume. This chapter places the book within its contemporary context, using original research to focus authoritatively on the aims and ideals that shaped its social, political, cultural and philosophical achievement. Sunset Song garners greatest attention for its bespoke narrative techniques and for the eclectic deployment of literary influences from Scotland and elsewhere. The nostalgic power and moral impact of this first novel as a compelling bildungsroman and an elegy for the crofting society destroyed by the war feeds into the more overtly political character of the remaining parts of the trilogy. The revolutionary political perspective at the heart of the work is convincingly based on the author’s ready identification with the subaltern classes, marking it as the highest form of littérature engagée. The Gibbon contributions to Scottish Scene are considered in relation to the central achievement of the trilogy, with the Scottish stories replicating the author’s signature style and, in ‘Forsaken’, successfully carrying it to a more sophisticated level of stylistic experimentation. The polemical essays are welcomed for shedding light on the author’s ideas and beliefs, about literature, politics, history and religion.

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