Intertextuality

suffering as depicted in several artworks, especially Brueghel’s painting of the fall of Icarus, as seen by the persona in a mueseum. This close reading will focus on the importance of Icarus and how suffering is depicted in the poems. Making use of intertextuality, both poems portray Icarus, a character in Greek mythology. Based on “Daedelus and Icarus,” an exerpt from the book Understanding Myths and Legends written by Karen Moncrieffe, Icarus is the son of Daedelus, an remarkably skilled…

INTRODUCTION I am going to analyse the text by using textual anaylsis consisting of semiotics, genre theory to determine the genre of the music video Anaconda by Nicki Minaj. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, anything that can be taken as a sign, words, images, objects, and texts can be studied to understand their meaning. I will also be using textual analysis such as genre theory that will enable me to recognize the genre of the music video anaconda. Genre is recognisable through…

Question Two Poetry does not use a special language’ that is separate from everyday life. Rather, it uses everyday language in a specially skilled and sensitive way for particular aesthetic purposes. Discuss the work of one poet in the light of this statement. Language is incredibly important in allowing people to convey and share their thoughts and experiences. Poets are considered to be masters of language in that they are able to utilise form and imagery, to share their experiences and…

Literature as the artifact of culture, it provides significant datum about the social setup and structure, mores and morals, religious ethos and orientation, trends and traditions, values and attitudes of a society in which a protagonist exists or struggles to exist (Spair-Whorf Hypothesis Chapter 1). It is language through which process of construction embarks on issues of identity, cultural, and ideology (Wykes and Gunter 2005:61). It aims to construct, deconstruct or reconstruct the worldview…

“...Sethe was licked, tasted, eaten by Beloved’s eyes.” (Morrison 68) This example of metaphorical cannibalism depicts the bottomless hunger that Beloved feels for Sethe. Throughout Beloved, Toni Morrison embeds the motif of hunger to develop a juxtaposition: Consumption nourishes and allows the establishment of connections; however, it can become a lethal obsession. Including the hunger of the characters in 124 unravels their emotional pain and emphasizes the psychological traumas they endure.…

An Exploration of Postmodern Aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse – Five V. Balamurugan Dr. D. Shanmugam PhD Research Scholar Associate Professor Department of English English Wing, DDE, Annamalai University Annamalai University Abstract The aim of this research paper is to expose the postmodern aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Postmodernism first gained its popularity in America and it become rich and varied in the hands of the American writers and…

In his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster introduces key concepts that are applied in the widespread world of literature; furthermore, Foster does express that “‘Always’ and ‘never’ are not words that have much meaning in literary study...”(19) due to numerous authors creating pieces that do not follow the general trend, thus his teachings should be taken as a general rule of thumb. In order to get a better grasp of his teachings, the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda…

The well-known Thai movie that is a good example of portraying women’s oppression and feminism is Jan Dara. The movie is based on a famous Thai erotic novel. The film portrays the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by Vissanan-decha, his own sadistic and debauched father. Described the story in 1930s and depicted growing pains of Jan, his mother, who is strongly detested by Luang Vissanan-decha, died while giving birth to him. So, Jan lives with his aunt, and he struggles to…

Analyse the representation and formal importance of transformation with regard to two texts studied so far. Metamorphosis, meaning change of form, underpins the process of transformation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (008AD). Present throughout Kafka’s text is the political instability of central Europe during the early 1900’s; the social and militaristic unrest of the Second Reich was rife in Kafka’s home city of Prague. The grim reality of Gregor’s metamorphosis,…

sorting information from specific words or phrases to bringing readers to a particular past knowledge: “whether...information comes from print or film...simply read [from] the text” (217). The “inner ear” Foster is referring to is the implement of intertextuality which include “The Law of Universal Connectedness: Every novel grows out of other novels” (218). In another word, writers and readers are influence by one another either by another book, movie, or…