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  2. William Blake in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    William Blake's body of work has influenced countless writers, poets and painters, and his legacy is often apparent in modern popular culture. [1] His artistic endeavours, which included songwriting in addition to writing, etching and painting, often espoused a sexual and imaginative freedom that has made him a uniquely influential figure ...

  3. Category:Literature in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Literature in popular culture" ... Popular culture references to Sherlock Holmes; T.

  4. Category:Poems in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Allusions to Poe's "The Raven" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in popular culture

  5. Allusion - Wikipedia

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    Backside of a clay tablet from Pylos bearing the motif of the Labyrinth, an allusion to the mythological fight of Theseus and the Minotaur. In the most traditional sense, allusion is a literary term, though the word has also come to encompass indirect references to any source, including allusions in film or the visual arts. [8]

  6. The Catcher in the Rye in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Caputi, a specialist in dramatic literature at Cornell University, claims that the novel inspires both "variations" and "imitations", comparing it with several coming-of-age films. [ 7 ] In The Collector (1965), which is based on the John Fowles novel, Clegg cannot understand why Miranda likes The Catcher in the Rye .

  7. Greek mythology in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    A coin featuring the profile of Hera on one face and Zeus on the other, c. 210 AC. Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.

  8. Jane Austen in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The author Jane Austen and her works have been represented in popular culture in a variety of forms. Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose social commentary and masterly use of both free indirect speech and irony eventually made her one of the most influential and honoured novelists in English literature .

  9. Ziva Ben-Porat - Wikipedia

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    "The Poetics of Literary Allusion", PTL 1, 1976 [4] Poetics Today , "Method in Madness: Notes on the Structure of Parody, based on Mad\s T.V. Satires", 1979 Lyrical Poetry & the Lyrics of Pop , Tel-Aviv (Hebrew), 1989