Waterland: Literary Relations Overview

Dickens

• Story-Telling in Swift and Dickens
• Narrative in Waterland and Great Expectations
• Waterland and Great Expectations as Autobiography
• The Bildungsroman Genre: Waterland and Great Expectations
• Waterland and Great Expectations: Confronting Failed Expectations
• Sexuality and Symbolism in Waterland and Great Expectations
• Eels in Waterland and Great Expectations

Wordsworth

• Swift, Wordsworth, and the French Revolution

A. S. Byatt

• Narratives of the Victorian Past: Byatt, Carey, and Swift
• The Void in Waterland and Possession

Salman Rushdie

• Connections Between Shame and Waterland
• Rushdie, Ishiguro, and the Art of Story-Telling
• Shame as the Impetus for Stories: Rushdie, Swift & Ishiguro
• The Conversational Narrator in Shame and Waterland
• Waterland, Shame, and the Conversational Narrator
• Magic Realism and Self-Conscious Writing in Waterland and Shame
• Connections between Waterland and Shame
• Mary in Waterland and Omar in Shame : History, Humanity, and History
• The East Wind and the Loo in Waterland and Shame

Penelope Lively

• Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger

Other

• To a Dancing God and Waterland: Storytelling as a Religious Faith
• The Construction of Cyclical Time in Waterland