These old stories are interwoven with references to contemporary authors who have fed British folklore into their fiction: Susan Cooper, Neil Gaiman, Alan Garner, J. K. Rowling.
This framework gives the piece a subtle tension, as Rafferty's tale of drink-destroyed lives and helpless yearning for home is interwoven with references to the narrator's more settled circumstances (as she herself becomes the listener in the chair, absorbing Rafferty's account).
He's the kind of writer who makes you feel very smart (Kitty Genovese and the moral bankruptcy of crowds in Watchmen, for example) and very stupid (a dozen obscure Victorian literature references interwoven into every page of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) at the same time.
It is not the novel's plot, but its rhythmic prose, interwoven with musical and poetical references, that most engages.
Most prominent in this indelible sequel is the irresistible hook of an interwoven, textural world that not content with referencing its predecessor constantly also seems to branch into Valve's other games.
Most prominent in this indelible sequel is the irresistible hook of an interwoven, textural world that – not content with referencing its predecessor constantly – also seems to branch into Valve's other games.
The Madness of Love by Katharine Davies This elegantly written take on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, told from various characters' perspectives, begins with a young man diving to his death, traverses an interwoven love story, and is punctuated with wonderful botanical references.
In the notes that accompanied the spring show, references to Westernization, globalization and the Arab Spring were interwoven with quotes from the American Marxist philosopher and literary critic Fredric Jameson.
"Cucumber" 's eight hour-long episodes are interwoven with those of two other series, "Banana" and "Tofu," the titles cheeky references to a urological scale for rating men's erections.
In reference to the public policy factors, one may deduce that policy factors are interwoven with information provision, controlling, penalising and subsidising, either directly or indirectly, even if the subsidies do not correspond with demand.
