Search Results for intertextuality

...Daniel Hack Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between identificatory and mimetic reading practices—so often viewed as naive or mystified—and attention to intertextuality, which has so often been seen as contrasting with and discrediting such practices. Such a reconsideration, made...

... stands in need of critical and methodological revision. Moving beyond a notion of translation as interlinguistic and intertextual transposition, it explores the novelist's canon in light of the emergent concept of “cultural translation.” In this perspective, the essay examines such categories...

... attending to the novel's own reception of those histories. Focusing on the significance of the novel's intertextual and paratextual evidence in an interpretation of the novel's unconventional narrative strategies, the essay examines hybrid modes of reading the novel, as well as reading in the novel as a way...

... and digressive form and its dense, intertextual web of allusion might defeat the reader. This article argues that, despite its difficulty, the novel deserves a wider readership than it has received so far outside Germany. For those who see the fall of the Berlin Wall as the epoch-making event of the last quarter...

... with its ethics. In so doing, she blurs the line between religious and secular, writing, “In their intertextuality with the Qur'an and Islamic philosophy, the novels in this study disrupt the bifurcation of secular and religious discourses” (3). Deconstructing these Arabs’ writing practices, she reveals...

...) that are also privileged in postmodern literary and cultural theories, including: generic instability, narra- tive discontinuity and irresolution, intertextual parody, and textual self- reflexivity. But the existence of such stylistic overlaps does not lead these critics to view African American...

... of authorial self-construction has been crucial to a great deal of recent DeCordova is one of a number of scholars who have written about the intertextual nature of film celebrity. Miriam Hansen writes that "the star is defined by his or her existence outside of individual films...

..., consciousness, and literary meaning through readings of Joyce. More recently, Derek Attridge, Jacques Aubert, Shari Benstock, Murray McArthur, Christine van Boheemen- Saaf, and Jean-Michel Rabate have all contributed indispensable commentaries on Joyce and Derrida's intertextual relations. However...

... planned to “write back” to Conrad's Lord Jim by unearthing the migrant histories of the urban Chinese diaspora. The novels that they produced in 1936, Coolie and Rickshaw , reveal a mutual commitment to politicizing the English canon, weaving intertextual references to Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens...

... that is already familiar and that demands more of us in the way of critical attention as opposed, that is, to providing an opportunity for celebration. Hypertext is already everywhere. Intertextuality is immediately, literally, and mechanistically engaged with every act of contemporary inscription and reading. We...

... experimentalism. What is equally valuable in Gaedtke's approach is his intertextual treatment of contemporary memoirs of mental illness, such as Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903) and Marguerite Sechehaye's transcription of an anonymous young woman's psychic dysfunction...

... in the eighteenth-century literary field: the similarity of themes and narratives, the repetition of intertextual references, and a clear distancing from writing by men. The conversation circle as practiced by women was not only the locus for the learning of modern languages, especially French, but also the “medium...

... of the human personality as socially intertextual is not news to us in literary studies, the grimly Althusserian conception of the category of the human in international human rights law is more of a shock. Slaughter arrives at this antihumanist dimension of human rights law in tracing legal...

.... Instead of noting its intertextuality with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, tillet | the circle of return 133 Greene spends a great deal of time exploring Reed’s confrontation with white male writers like Edgar Allan Poe and the New...

... or near-adults, and written in English by someone born in or a permanent resident of Nigeria" (522). Eileen Julien, in contrast, defines the "African novel" not by local writers but by global readers, as "a particular type of narrative char- acterized by its intertextuality with hegemonic...

... Joseph Blotner’s massively detailed, foundational Faulkner: A Biography (in both its one- and two-volume versions), David Minter’s evocatively intertextual tracing of the arc of Faulkner’s career in William Faulkner: His Life and Work, Joel Williamson’s deep historical contextualizing of Faulkner’s...

... to which the interpretation of narrative depends upon collaborations between the agencies of author and audience, or as he puts it in the fourth principle of the rhetorical poetics he constructs in the Introduction, how the “feedback loop among authorial agency, textual phenomena (including intertextual...

... formation. Throughout the book, Levy-Hussen helps us see refreshing intertextuality between canonical works—as in, “Wild is the literary resuscitation of Beloved's exorcised ghost” (37)—and between the canonical and noncanonical—as in the entirety of this chapter. Focusing on “anti-historical black fiction...

... she argues, ‘‘Faulkner expanded commonplace notions of race writing’’ (21). I take well her point that African American literature does not emerge or exist in a vacuum, that the cultural production of the dominant and the marginalized should be treated intertextually. I’m not sure, though...

... might be called the ethnographic compulsion in the framing of African lit- erature is by posing it as writing that competes with other writings, literary and otherwise. Looked at this way, Achebe is heir to and in intertextual dialogue with the legacy of native missionaries. Where Crowther...