Allusion
Subtitle: A Literary Graft (Theory/Culture)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: September 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780802004499
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Novels, other prose & writers; French literature; French Novel And Short Story; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literature: Classics; History and criticism; European - French; Allusions in literature; Essays; 19th century; 20th century
Description: Since Julia Kristeva first coined the term 'intertextuality,' explanations of the way literature incorporates other literature have produced few distinctions and much obscurity. In contrast, Allan H. Pasco's Allusion looks at the way allusion works in specific fictions and how it affects the process of reading.

Drawing from a wide range of French authors, including Flaubert, Stendhal, Proust, Balzac, Zola, Sartre, and Robbe-Grillet, Pasco uses a number of examples to show how allusions work, how texts integrate other texts to create new metaphorical constructs.