James Gawley’s book examines allusions between poems of different languages with the aim of determining how readers recognize these kinds of intertextual references. The author describes his goal as “a quantitative study of the linguistic features” and a “cognitive study of the mechanics of literary allusion” (p. 9). His test cases are similarities between Vergil’s … Continue reading Allusions across the language barrier: the poetic techniques of Voltaire and Vergil