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Watching with the Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality

Watching with the Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality more books like this

by Jonathan Gray

Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, "Watching with The Simpsons" examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy. As a study, ...

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Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles more books like this

by Marsha Kinder

A study of contemporary media sources which analyzes how children respond to what they see and hear, and relates how current fads such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are carefully contrived and manipulated by large-scale commercial interests.

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Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale

Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale more books like this

by Stephen Benson (Editor)

This book considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In "Contemporary Fiction and the ...

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Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film

Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film more books like this

by Mikhail Iampolski, M B Iampolskii

The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In "The Memory of Tiresias", Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics ...

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Twice Told Tales: Stories

Twice Told Tales: Stories more books like this

by Daniel Stern

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Odysseus Polutropos: Intertextual Readings in the Odyssey and the Iliad, with a New Afterword more books like this

by Professor Pietro Pucci

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Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, Performance, Histories

Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, Performance, Histories more books like this

by Terr Threadgold, Threadgold Terr

Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently ...

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Literary Transmission and Auth more books like this

by Earl Miner (Editor), Jennifer Brady (Editor)

Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary ...

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The Dragonas Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Weltyas Athe Golden Applesa more books like this

by Rebecca Mark

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Baudelaire and Intertextuality: Poetry at the Crossroads

Baudelaire and Intertextuality: Poetry at the Crossroads more books like this

by Margery A Evans

This new reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris is a response to Baudelaire's own challenge to read his text as one in which 'everything ...is head and tail, alternately and reciprocally'. Margery Evans proposes that Le Spleen de Paris serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as the unitary narrator, the extended plot, and the ...

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The Cosmopolitan World of Henry James: An Intertextual Study more books like this

by Adeline R Tintner

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Allusion to the Poets

Allusion to the Poets more books like this

by Christopher Ricks

Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - on allusion and its relations, in particular on the ...

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Claude Simon and the Transgressions of Modern Art more books like this

by Michael Evans, LL.

Modernity is characterized by the relentless impulse of transgression. It breaks out of the restrictive frame of Aristotelian unity which is intrinsic to the realist convention in art. The novels of Claude Simon, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985, explore the creative possibilities generated by transgression and by the associative ...

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Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, Interte

Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, Interte more books like this

by Yunte Huang

Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a ...

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Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema

Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema more books like this

by Professor James Goodwin

In studying cinema as complex as the work of Akira Kurosawa, argues James Goodwin, recent ideas about intertextuality provide a more helpful paradigm than traditional notions of auteurism. In this text, he draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore Kurosawa's use of a variety of texts to create cinema that is both ...

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Intertextuality more books like this

by Graham Allen

Graham Allen's Intertextuality follows all the major turns in the term's history, and clearly explains how intertextuality is employed in: structuralism post-structuralism deconstruction response theory Marxism feminism psychoanalytic theory With a wealth of illuminating examples from literary and cultural texts, including special examination of ...

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Twice Upon a Time: Stories more books like this

by Daniel Stern

Twice Upon a Time is author Daniel Stern's second literary adventure in weaving fresh modern tales from the thematic threads of great texts of the past. His new collection focuses on some classic favorites - "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville and "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka - and turns them upside down with enchanting results. ...

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Postcolonial Con-Texts more books like this

by John Thieme

This is an overview of responses to literary texts overtly associated with the colonial project or the construction of "race" (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness and Othello), as well as to texts where the interaction between culture and imperialism is less obvious (Great Expectations, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The ...

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Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings more books like this

by Moyra Haslett

This title defines literature of the 18th century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to ideas of the public sphere. Key texts (including "The Dunciad", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Pamela") are read through the context of ...

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Shakespeare's Cues and Prompts more books like this

by Murray J Levith

Shakespeare, like Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", is a weaver. The playwright spins a web of his explicit and implicit narrative and dramatic sources, historical and cultural prompts, and other multifaceted intertexts woven into the fabric of his comedies, tragedies and histories. This study highlights some examples of largely unrecognized ...

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Poems in Their Place: Intertextuality and Order of Poetic Collections more books like this

by Neil Fraistat

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Play Literature Religion: Essays in Cultural Intertextuality more books like this

by Professor Virgil Nemoianu

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb more books like this

by Scott L Newstok

An innovative study of the emergent Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. Quoting Death argues that the post-Reformation preoccupation with textual remembrance led to a remarkable proliferation of epitaphic gestures beyond the putative gravestone. A poetics of quotation uncovers the fascinating ways in ...

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The Quest for Context and Meaning: Studies in Biblical Intertextuality in Honor of James A. Sanders more books like this

by Shemaryahu Talmon (Contributions by), Prof. C a Evans (Contributions by), Lewis Barth (Contributions by)

This collection of studies is published in honour of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of the canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and the relationship of the two Testaments. Contributions investigate in what ways the early sacred tradition was interpreted and how this tradition takes a new shape in the Jewish and ...

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Social Semiotics as Praxi more books like this

by Paul J Thibault

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