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Great Writers Inspire Great Writing

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Great Writers Inspire
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Alex Pryce considers how writers are readers, influenced and inspired by the works of other writers.
Taking as a starting point the literary afterlife of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and the influence of Romantic John Keats on the First World War Poet Wilfred Owen, Alex discusses how writers are challenged by precursory writers, and introduces some theories of influence from T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom.

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Great Writers Inspire
People
Alex Pryce
Keywords
Jane Eyre
#greatwriters
anxiety of influence
Wilfred Owen
T.S. Eliot
influence
Virginia Woolf
Harold Bloom
James Joyce
inspiration
tradition
Charlotte Bronte
John Keats
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 19/09/2012
Duration: 00:09:23

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