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Make lit new: Are retold tales a new fad or the latest incarnation of a rich tradition?

> “A number of years ago I did teach a class on literary homages and borrowings,” she says. “I talked in that class about Jane Eyre and (Jean Rhys’) Wide Sargasso Sea, and about King Lear and (Jane Smiley’s) A Thousand Acres, and a number of poems — Dover Beach and Dover Bitch — and looked at this idea of borrowing. I think that it’s a very, very long tradition. I mean, Shakespeare’s King Lear is actually borrowed from another play with exactly the same title, King Lear. He did not conceal his borrowing. So it’s always been part of our literary tradition, that we come back to certain stories.”


by thenewgreen 451 days ago  ·  link
mk, hope you don't mind but this seems right up this posts alley: http://www.underodysseus.blogspot.com/

Great blog, great story-telling from Hubski's very own "Eurylochus"

by mk 451 days ago  ·  link
Aw geez. Yeah ok.
by thenewgreen 451 days ago  ·  link
Sorry man, I can erase if you'd like? Should have asked first, my bad.
by mk 451 days ago  ·  link
No I kid. It's fine. I mentioned it somewhere here before.
by thenewgreen 451 days ago  ·  link
Good. You should be proud of it. It's a fun read. I look forward to the e-book.


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