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The character V from Devil May Cry 5 often quotes poetry by William Blake, namely the opening stanza of Auguries of Innocence being read out loud by the character, and references to The Tyger seen within his poetry book. Furthermore, the game’s primary antagonist, “Urizen, ‘the Demon King’”, a godlike being embodying absolute power ...
Pop culture fiction is a genre of fiction where stories are written intentionally to be filled with references from other works and media. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Stories in this genre are focused solely on using popular culture references.
South Park episode "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" (2010) makes particular reference to The Catcher in the Rye and shows that its once-controversial use of vocabulary has no impact among young readers nowadays, and pokes fun at literary critics reading deeper meaning into books. It also references its connection towards the series of high ...
Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) have been highly popular in their original forms, and have served as the basis for many subsequent works since they were published. They have been adapted directly into other media, their characters and situations have been appropriated into other ...
A Frankenstein-like monster called Victor von Gerdenheim is a playable character in the fighting game series Darkstalkers, along with many other monsters from popular culture. Frankenstein's Monster also appears in the video game adaptation of the film Van Helsing. He only appears as a non-playable character.
Many writers make references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous literary creation, the detective Sherlock Holmes, [1] and these often become embedded within popular culture. While Holmes exists predominantly in the context of Victorian-era London, he has been mentioned in such outre contexts as the 22nd century [ 2 ] or hunting aliens or ...
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Before The Tortured Poets Department was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006 ...
In Season 5 episode 9 of the sitcom Friends, Phoebe Buffay and Rachel Green both enroll in a literature class. One of the books that they needed to have read is Wuthering Heights. Rachel, never having read it, gets Phoebe to give her a synopsis and uses her synopsis to describe the book, much to Phoebe's irritation.