Intertextuality

Thomas C. Foster’s How To Read Literature Like A Professor is, as it says in the title, a guide on how to read literary works more professionally in order to better understand the concepts, themes, symbolism, and other aspects, like intertextuality better. Mr. Foster includes examples from many well known and praised works in order to give the reader a sense of what they should be looking for in order to contextualize a literary work. For example, Foster uses each chapter as sort of a guide.…

Crescent can best be presented from a postmodernist angle as it deals with especially identity, multiculturalism, hybridity, ethnicity, exile, displacement as well as other relevant aspects such as intertextuality, language and narrative technique. Consequently, this study will shed light on the issues of identity, hybridity, exile and displacement. Though this work of Abu Jaber has already received the attention of many critics, I chose this novel of hers because of its relation with the Arabs'…

discovery of a friendship is beneficial for the speaker. Later in the story, the narrator is constantly referring to his mother’s opinion on their friendship, who refers the two to be similar to Lenny and George from ‘Of mice and men’. The use of intertextuality here allows readers to further relate to the two characters. This change throughout the short story is evident that the narrator’s discoveries have effectively transformed…

Borrowing the genre of melodrama, Almodóvar’s award-winning film, All About My Mother (1999), features transgender and post-queer study of sexuality. Apart from presenting two pre-op transgenders, the film renders a variety of “abnormal” intimate relationships, including the protagonist, Manuela’s family without a father, Huma’s ultimately failed lesbian relationship with Nina, and the family formed at the end of the film, constituted by Manuela, Rosa’s baby, and queer girlfriends. These unusual…

dominant in the text, acting in both texts as a criticism of the mindless patriotism present in their contexts. As a defining work of the dystopian genre, Metropolis played a large part in influencing 1984’s characterizations, giving rise to this intertextuality. Many of these characterizations have been born out of a shared post-war…

and social affairs.” (Reed 82) Furthermore, the African American community anticipates that its delegates will stand firm in resistance by applying learning to help their point of view yet in reality, they just comprehensively reestablish the intertextualities of black public intellectuals from the nineteenth…

Human mortality. One would know that it is the primary term that usually categorizes death. But can we categorize the aspects of death into one group? When one thinks of human death, it is easy to perceive it in a negative light. But with the help of the three poems "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas, "Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne, and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, these selections highlight how death can have different…

Prospero seems to treat Ariel in a better way than he treats Caliban. Ariel is a lot more submissive. Prospero manipulates Ariel he calls him “my brave spirit” so that he will perform Prospero’s deeds (1.2.206). In A Tempest, by contrast, the character Ariel shows explicit signs of dissatisfaction and disgust at what Prospero has made him do “I did so most unwillingly”(9). There is a different dynamic to the master- slave relationship of Ariel and Prospero to that of Caliban and Prospero. This…

Through this trajectory of learning to be … while making and doing… I have always been more attached to the effort of trying to meet the needs of the artist as a person. I have learned that the art can survive only as long as the artist does… and my life in art and design began by serving those vulnerable creative communities who were tenacious enough to withstand the colonial legacy of destruction followed by our own apathy and indifference towards homegrown talent. I took a decision NOT to…

person, the epistolary section overtly engaging a reader and accentuating the message that the novel like official history is a construct. Post-modernist concern of the constructiveness of history is brought out using historical allusion and intertextuality in the passage of “Arthur Goss, the city photographer…unhooks the cord of lights…and climbs out into the sunlight. Work continues. The grunt into hard clay. The wet slap”. Ondaatje appropriates a historical figure of Arthur Goss into a…