"IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A REVELLER": THE CLASSICAL INTERTEXT IN DONNA TARTT'S THE SECRET HISTORY (part 2)

Some Classical Hypotexts in Margaret Doody’s Aristotle and Poetic Justice

“…I have argued that this applies to Donna Tartt's The secret history (Pauw 1994(Pauw , 1995 and to William Golding's The double tongue (Pauw 2008 For the sake of brevity, (i) will be called intrageneric; (Homer → Vergil); (ii) transgeneric (Euripides → Tartt); (iii) faction (i.e. a conflation of historical fact and fictional elements) and (iv) mosaical or kaleidoscopic, since such allusions appear as random snippets comparable to a fragmented mosaic or the shimmering chromatics of a kaleidoscope.…”