literary influence
Writer's lasting effect
Literary influence is the effect one writer's work has on another's—shaping style, themes, or technique.
Influence flows across generations: Hemingway's influence on American prose is unmistakable.
Writers may embrace or resist their influences.
The term also describes how literature shapes broader culture: the novel's influence on public attitudes toward mental illness.
- homageExpression of deep respect
- satireMockery exposing vice
- allusionIndirect reference to something
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
epigraphs · stream of consciousness · parody · allegory · retelling · adaptation · intertextuality · palimpsest · Modernism · dystopia · ghostly presence · predecessor · Renaissance literature · canon · style · derivative · voice · borrowing
- author's legacybody of work, collected works, published works, posthumous works, writing style
- literary influenceimitation, inspiration, allusion, homage, borrowing
- English literature relationsadaptation, intertextuality, allusion, borrowing, imitation
- Scott StudiesWalter Scott, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- world literatureworld literature, French novels, American literature, Russian novels, Japanese fiction