Title: Allusion
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: French literature, History and criticism, Allusions in literature, Literary studies: general, Literature - Classics / Criticism, French, Literary Criticism, Books & Reading, European - French, 20th century, 19th century, Allusions, Littérature française, Histoire et critique, Allusions dans la littérature
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century