Sentence examples for level of allusion from inspiring English sources
Although it uses "Hansel and Gretel" as a loose model, just as "Briar Rose" used "Sleeping Beauty," the fantastical element operates mostly at the level of allusion, and the book unfolds as a historical novel.
Just like the disappearance of a necessary level of allusion, evasion, irony and private language exchanges from the lives of gay men, the cross-sex transposition has disappeared from both conversation and literary creation.
In his magisterial study, The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell takes issue with In Parenthesis's extreme levels of allusion, judging it "an honourable miscarriage".
As he does in most of his more than three dozen plays, Stoppard piles allusion on top of allusion in this work.
Wagner's original contribution to the use of the leitmotif is that of allusion.
The poem is a collage of allusion, quotation, echo, appropriation, pastiche, imitation, and ventriloquism.
Donovan also shows himself acute and powerful in simple moments shorn of allusion.
His works are dense forests of allusion through which you hack, sentence by tangled sentence.
This sort of allusion is anecdotal.
T.S. Eliot, John Lennon, and Bob Dylan: Masters of Allusion, or Plagiarists?
His stories are anchored in an Edwardian society of inherited wealth and aristocratic authority, and his allusions presume a certain level of 'cultural capital' on the part of the reader.
