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The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers. By MARGARET M. JENSEN. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiii+235 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-132-29353-4.
Margaret Jensen's book falls somewhere in between the categories of the literary biography and the academic monograph. Her project is appealing: to explore the interactions between a group of writers linked by a network of personal and professional relationships. As a critic of literary influence, her primary interest is in the 'creative misreadings' deriving from the relationships between Leslie Stephen, Thomas Hardy, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf. As such terminology suggests, the Bloomian paradigm of...
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