10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLUSIVENESS»
Discover the use of
allusiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
allusiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shakespeare's Religious
Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
This book sheds new light on the playwright's knowledge of and interest in Elizabethan and Jacobean religious debates over the nature of spiritual reformation, the efficacy of merit for redemption and the operation of Providence.
2
French Renaissance Tragedy: The Dramatic Word
An obvious feature of any sixteenth-century French poetry, of whatever genre, is
its allusiveness; this could hardly be otherwise, given the importance of imitation
as a principle of poetic creation in the Renaissance, and the Pléiade reliance on
...
3
Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects
5: LITERARY ALLUSIVENESS AND PARODY The importance of literary wit and
allusion in the Metamorphoses is intrinsically related to Ovid's attitude to the
previous literary versions of his stories. We saw earlier that he constantiy expects
his ...
4
Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics suggests that, insofar “as
a composition is allegorical, it tends to signal the ambivalence or allusiveness of
its lang[uage] and to prescribe the direction in which a reader should interpret it”
...
5
The Finn Episode in Beowulf: An Essay in Interpretation
It cannot consequently be merely the allusiveness of the Episode which puzzles
us, but some attendant circumstance or some peculiar form of allusiveness, or
both together. As a matter of fact it is both these things together. The allusiveness
in ...
6
Reading the Victory Ode
essential feature of one such genre, the Yoruba oral poetry from Nigeria known
as ori/ei. It is praise-poetry, and notable for its allusiveness, density and difficulty.
In the case of the genre of ori/ei (to which we will return) segments of diction can
...
Peter Agócs, Chris Carey, Richard Rawles, 2012
7
The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After
We hear an echo that affirms by interpreting a prior textual voice. Echo, allusion,
and quotation, then, are forms of citation that are clearly related and clearly
distinct. We generally bracket them under the heading of allusiveness, various
aspects ...
8
Selected Writings: Orientpolitik, value, and civilisation
We use marriage as a term of inter-structural reference consciously, being aware
of the minimum and the maximum range of allusiveness. Or, when a writer refers
to a man as King of Dahomey or Tahiti, he will later set down the relations ...
Franz Baermann Steiner, Jeremy D. Adler, Richard Fardon, 1999
9
Mastery and Escape: T.S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism
12 Eliot's belief in the self-transcendence of objects is evident in the use he
makes of a literary device that some critics consider his trademark— allusiveness
. In literature, allusiveness is not peculiar to Eliot; in fact, it is a stock-in-trade of
most ...
Jewel Spears Brooker, 1994
10
Scripture: A Guide for the Perplexed
The point about the allusiveness of language is reinforced by Harold Bloom in
Where Shall Wisdom be Found? For Bloom, a sense of connotation is essential
in the effective reading and interpretation of a text: 'Without a sense of
connotation, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALLUSIVENESS»
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allusiveness is used in the context of the following news items.
60 minutes of music that sum up the venerable, ornery Neil Young
... world-weary side of Young—previously evident on a few scattered songs—while retaining the poetic allusiveness of his early work. It's hard ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jul 15»
Book Review: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
This playfulness, allusiveness, and eccentric pacing mean that while Seveneves will be worthwhile for every reader, it will be rewarding for ... «Livemint, Jun 15»
A Gift Opens the Way: A Reflection on Todd Haynes
Will there ever be a more comprehensive and searching film than I'm Not There that apprehends something of Dylan's genius for allusiveness? «PopMatters, Jun 15»
Mr. Robot functions best when it's most human
Apart from all the allusiveness—Elliot's a secretive hacker being trailed by Matrix-esque agents, Mr. Robot makes his appeal to the big picture ... «A.V. Club DC, Jun 15»
Scott Bruun: Oregon's Cougar Problem
Yet still, given the allusiveness of the cougar, dogs were the only path to any real chance of success. Now, with the dog-ban in place for twenty ... «GoLocalPDX, Jun 15»
Is Translation an Art or a Math Problem?
They see the redundancy and allusiveness of natural languages as a matter not of intricacy but of confusion and inefficiency. Most valuable ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
This Is Who Shamir Is
“I'm just naturally introverted,” he says at one point, perhaps also aware that a lean towards allusiveness is all the more fascinating. He might ... «Noisey, May 15»
Nell Zink's Brilliant Mislaid Is a Parody of a Satire of Race
... on the antic sparks of her prose, her freewheeling extra-canonical allusiveness, her swings from the register of love to a mode of contempt. «Vulture, May 15»
Cam Cameron wants Anthony Jennings, Brandon Harris to force Les …
However, Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M wasn't very big and he got away with it in college because of his allusiveness. If McMillan can get ... «The Advocate, Apr 15»
The Odd Children's Books That Taught Jonathan Lethem About …
It hinged on a lot of weird wordplay and allusiveness and the illustrations were really entrancing. For more, including his thoughts on The ... «io9, Apr 15»
