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Allusion As Form: The Waste Land And Moulin Rouge!, Stacy Magedanz
Allusion As Form: The Waste Land And Moulin Rouge!, Stacy Magedanz
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Allusion is usually considered a literary technique, but relatively little attention has been paid to the notion of allusion as a literary form. In this essay, I attempt to describe the allusive form based on two prominent examples, T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! Though radically different, the two works embody distinguishing characteristics of the allusive form. These are intertextuality, or a dependence upon outside sources for sense and significance; heightened and self-conscious artificiality; a confrontational attitude toward the audience; elitism, based on the exclusivity of allusions; appropriation of multiple cultures; and pervasive anachronism. Though prone …
An Introduction To Volume 19 Of The New Age, Lee Garver
An Introduction To Volume 19 Of The New Age, Lee Garver
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Dr. Lee Garver's introduction to The New Age, Volume 19 (May 4 to October 26, 1916)
An Introduction To Volume 8 Of The New Age, Lee Garver
An Introduction To Volume 8 Of The New Age, Lee Garver
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Dr. Lee Garver's introduction to The New Age, Volume 8 (November 3, 1910 to April 27, 1911).