Intertextuality

There are a variety of reasons as to why productions of plays specifically add to the meaning and understanding of the context surrounding the content. In this essay, all of these will be examined meticulously with the aid of examples, namely ‘Waiting for Godot’ and ‘Lady Windermere 's Fan’. These two dramatic texts lend themselves both to being read and being performed and it is through this that there is a need to assess which is better; in terms of understanding the texts and their underlying…

betrayal and deception. Foster discusses finding character types in chapter 6. Here he clues us in on the fact that there is always, and has always, only been one story. Texts borrow and add elements to each other as a way of communicating, which is intertextuality. These elements include characters. We see repeats of character types all the time, and it is no different with this story. They serve to create a connection between texts and also serve to help readers identify with characters within…

my ideas and to develop my critical thinking through learning from the best professors who are experts in the field of the 20th century narrative. I admire Professor Richard Goodkin’s work on the 20th century French literature, on Proust and intertextuality. I was lucky to have the opportunity to read his book Around Proust and I have really enjoyed it, to say the…

character roles! This films primary location, San Fransokyo, presents the cultural blurring and collapse of traditional boundaries between the culture and art. The name of the city, San Fransokyo, is in of itself double- coded and mixed with some intertextuality. The name of the city is a combination of San Francisco and Tokyo creating a new unique hybrid of society and culture in the movie. Then there are also the multiple binaries of Baymax. Baymax’s first appearance in the film totally…

are cheating, but unintentional plagiarism occurs when a student does not cite their sources properly or does not cite paraphrased information. “Given the nuances of citation and their entanglement with issues of educational goals, originality, intertextuality, selfhood, and individuality, it is clear that students cannot simply be handed a brochure and be expected to get it” (Blum 3). When students are confused and intimidated by citations and their complex rules, they may unintentionally…

Question: In what ways is the reader seduced or comforted by the ideas in the works studied and in what ways challenged or alienated? The writer can affect the reader in a negative or positive way through the author’s use of literary devices such as narrative voice, tone, and symbolism. The reader is definitely affected in the literary works, The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano and in A Doll House. However, depending on the reader’s sociocultural context and historical…

Shakespeare 's play “Taming of the Shrew” and the 1990’s film, 10 Things I Hate About You,both aim to reflect the common ideas of- relationships, feminism, appearance verus reality and transformation. However, the context and intended audience of both texts forces varied representations and interpretations of these ideas. The use of film techniques and modern day music are used in 10 Things to appeal to a modern audience, while Taming of the Shrew is represented using literary techniques. 10…

When Kubrick unleashed his final cinematic work Eyes Wide Shut in1999, like all his previous films, it was grievously misunderstood by audiences and critics alike. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick upholds a psychoanalytic parallel between the two, as the source story heavily borrowed from Freud’s theory of life (Eros) and death instincts (Thanatos). The task of transporting the overall…

‘Be careful what you wish for’, aptly describes what happens to Roderick in Rome, where the desire to see the great works of art result in the young artist experiencing “an indigestion of impressions; I must work them off before I go in for any more” (103). Accordingly, Roderick tells his patron he can no longer look at “other people’s works, for a month — not even at Nature’s own” (103), but instead he is driven to see his own creations. The time spent in the eternal city seems to both men like…

In addition to the women being impaired of contributing, on a greater scale, to their society, because of their gender, they are also not able to fully explore their sexuality during the first two time periods in which The Hours takes place—the early 20s and early 50s. A pivotal scene is when Laura kisses her neighbor and friend, Kitty: “Kitty’s face is against Laura’s breasts. She seems to relax into her. Laura lifts Kitty’s face, and puts her lips against hers. They both know what they are…