Yet neither the Gothic plot nor the contemporary thematic parallels are what lend this novel its unusual vitality.

That its biblical forebear, from Genesis, devises a false identity for herself forms only one of several thematic parallels with Peet's story.

But given how their bullpen let the game slip into extra innings, how it eventually was lost, who could resist drawing thematic parallels to disasters past?

Some may find thematic parallels with Gondry's later film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

And given that so many of the plays were by midcareer writers, the thematic parallels were not all that surprising.

Thomas Tyler, for instance, noted thematic and verbal parallels between these sonnets and some letters of Pembroke.

Thorns has several thematic parallels with Silverberg's contemporaneous novel The Man in the Maze.

Thorns has some interesting thematic parallels with The Man in the Maze, published two years later.

After the opening jolt of "Mountain Language," a slack "Birthday Party" turns the double bill's thematic parallels into an academic exercise.