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 ...
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, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? Intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry in recent times. In this study, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental concepts as "author," "text," and "reader," which he then applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid and ...
Richard Gray is known as both a leading European scholar in American literature and a leading international scholar of the literature of the American South. Through numerous examples drawn from southern literature, a historically conscious body of writing clearly in conversation with itself, Gray helps us to understand how any literary tradition ...
The author details how Eliot re-imagined Milton's life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. She demonstrates that Eliot directly engaged Milton's poetry, prose and the well-known legends of his life, transposing, re-framing, re-gendering and testing stories by and about him.
Drawing together diverse literary, critical and theoretical texts in which the palimpsest has appeared since its inauguration by Thomas De Quincey in 1845, "Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory" provides the first ever genealogy of this metaphor. Sarah Dillon's original theorisation argues that the palimpsest has an involuted structure which ...
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