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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"intertext"”.
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
… and the contemporary relevance in these intertextual scenes. I show how Statius highlights themes that illustrate a deterioration of family dynamics, ritual connections, and political turmoil, which is intrinsically connected to the crisis of the political situation in Statius’ time. I …
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Murky Impressions of Postmodernism: Eugene Gant and Shakespearean Intertext in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River
… I analyze the significance of Shakespearean intertextuality in the major works of Thomas Wolfe featuring protagonist Eugene Gant: Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. Specifically, I explore Gant's habits and preferences as a reader by examining the narrative arising from the …
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"I Heard the Same Thing Once Before": Intertextuality in Selected Works of Evelyn Waugh
<p>Through the lens of structural intertextuality, this dissertation reveals the significance of literary allusion in some of Evelyn Waughs works. It investigates intertextual significance and intent that has, heretofore, been largely bypassed. This study tracks Waugh's intertextual instances from …
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Problematización de la memoria histórica: intertextualidades y transiciones políticas en Insensatez de Horacio Castellanos Moya y La dimensión desconocida de Nona Fernández
… directs the analysis of each work centers on the intertextual relationship between the narrative and the novel's foundational document. In Insensatez, the intertext of interest is the official report of the Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REMHI) titled Guatemala: Nunca Más (1998) and in La …
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"We Need the Storm, the Whirlwind, the Earthquake": The Intersection of Language and Violence in Nat Turner's "Confessions" and Frederick Douglass's <i>My Bondage and My Freedom</i>
… with written language. Reading this text as an intertext with Nat Turner's "Confessions" reveals the ways in which Douglass reappropriates the "stolen" slave's voice and works to-further abolition in the antebellum era.</p>
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"Songs to Soothe a Mother": Intertextuality and Intertribalism in Kiowa War Mother Songs
… elements, War Mother songs serve as an intertext of multiple pre-reservation songs and dances (War Journey, Scalp, and Victory), but also reflect changes in warfare and post-reservation lifestyle in the twentieth-century. After World War II into the Korean and Vietnam Wars, War Mother …
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Art as craft in the writings of AS Byatt: a study of Byatt's use of devices of metafiction (intertext and autotext) to examine how women transgress the conventions of male-ordered society in their efforts to exercise their creativity and converse with the world
… in two parts. The first chapter considers the intertextual creation of Possession's LaMotte from the biography and canon of the American Victorian poet Emily Dickinson. Both the fictive and the real-life poets, possessed by a creative talent, frustrated by its lukewarm reception and …
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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
… of structuralism, post-structuralism, and intertextuality. It undertakes this rethinking by considering the role of the author as reader--and thus as writer in the process of rereading and rewriting. This study also investigates the postmodern theory of intertextuality (i.e., the notion …
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Seeds and Bodies: Cosmology, Anthropology and Eschatology in 1 Corinthians 15:35-49
… to Paul’s motifs and his use of Old Testament intertexts, a new understanding of the passage is achieved. Furthermore, an examination of religious practices in Corinth provides the basis for proposing a reconstruction of the situation addressed by Paul.<br/>The study demonstrates that, in …
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… English literary traditions, identifies relevant intertexts, and proposes a set of key themes in aestheticizing discourses--the rejection of the natural, the quest for separation and mediation expressed in a valorization of artifice, aesthetic pleasure, private experience, and anti-utilitarian, …
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Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of and responses to folk song and popular music culture in the nineteenth century
… new category for discourse analysis, the 'false intertext', i.e. supposed allusions to folk song or other texts actually composed by the prose writers themselves. It investigates the effects within the literary texts both of these false intertexts and of the inclusion of material so heavily …
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Narratief en trauma : 'n ondersoek na die gebruik van ‘‘trauma’’ as 'n literêre kategorie in die analise van tekste
… paid to the Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad) intertext that appears in both. To expand the analysis, a brief overview of trauma in three other literary texts will also be included. These include Kennis van die Aand (1973) by Andre P Brink, Die Onsigbares (2003) by EKM Didio and In Stede van …
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Redemption and the Other: The Supernatural Narrator and the Intertextual (Sub)version of the Miltonic Command
… enters a state of otherwise than being in the intertext and becomes the Supernatural narrator who narrates both her own story and the unsaid story of the Goddess in the mythic narrative. By way of this otherwise than being as the Supernatural narrator, Tess takes on Eve's blame and …
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'Little Red Riding Hood' in the 21st Century: adaptation, archetypes, and the appropriation of a fairy tale
… 'Red Riding Hood' (2011), more implicit and intertextual references are discussed, with the intention of acknowledging the pervasive, and at times, unconscious nature of the adaptation process. This can be seen in films like 'The Village' (2004), 'Hard Candy' (2005) and the television series …
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Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante
… and related authors; and the conception of intertextuality used in the study, which is connected to both the practice of allegory and Boethius’ understanding of metaphysics. Chapter One examines the Consolation, beginning with the presentation and roles of its two major characters, Boethius …
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Intertextuality in film adaptation and its translation: the case of tim burton’s film “alice in wonderland” (2010) and its lithuanian translation /
… with the special focus on the aspect of intertextuality. For this purpose, the model proposed by Katerina Perdikaki, which distinguishes three main adaptation shifts, i.e. modulation, modification, and mutation that occur in the plot structure, narrative techniques, characterisation, and …
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Exploring Intertextuality: A Study Of A Teacher's Implementation Of The Key Stage 1 Reading SATs
… of the Key Stage 1 reading SATs. The concept of intertextuality was used to examine the relationship between these discourses. Intertextuality was defined as signifying the ways in which discourses are associated in particular contexts and cultures with other discourses (intertexts) through …
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Fiction, ideology and history : a critical examination of Hans Grimm's novel 'Kaffernland'
… techniques. I locate Grimm's text within an intertext dominated by the ideologies of German nationalism, colonial space and fate. His portrayal of mid-nineteenth century political questions is shown as a contradictory amalgam of partisanship for both the bourgeoisie and the small peasantry, …
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Undermining The Angelic Restrictions Of First-Wave Feminism: What The New Woman Did, Didn't, And Wouldn't Do
<p>This dissertation provides an intertextual reading of Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did (1895), Victoria Cross's The Woman Who Didn't (1895), and Lucas Cleeve's The Woman Who Wouldn't (1895) in order to historically and culturally contextualize these popular New Woman novels in social-purity …
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