News: the Fire paperback is coming out on January 25, 2011 and is available now for pre-order on Amazon and BN.com. I don’t have any timing information regarding Bitterblue, but I promise to post it here once I do. So, my subject heading is a line of dialogue I enjoyed from last week’s episode of… Read more »
intertextuality
A Long Blather About Intertextuality, Actors, and the Movie Heat
Warning: this got rambly! Don’t stress out: it is not assigned reading and there will not be a quiz. Okay. About a year ago, I blogged about intertextuality in books and music. I.e., the way we bring every book we’ve read to every new book we read, and make connections; the way our enjoyment and… Read more »
Intertextuality
Dutch cover for the YA edition —-> click to enlarge —–> So, I read Jane Eyre, first published in 1847, before I ever read Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca (1938) or Mary Stewart’s Nine Coaches Waiting (1958). Do you know those two books? Both of them are obviously influenced by Charlotte Brontë’s novel; I’d go so far… Read more »