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    The Eyre Affair‚ by Jasper Fforde explores the relationship between literature and society. Through his depiction of fanatics‚ Fforde shows that art matters in their society‚ however in a different way than it does in ours. In Fforde’s world‚ literature seems to be universal and carefully maintained in its original form‚ whereas in our world‚ literature is enjoyed more on an individual basis‚ with room for creativity. In our world Literature is often regarded more casually than it is within The

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    The poets (and scholars based on my research) who I will discuss in this essay have chosen to re-examine and transform the tradition—the scholars by studying the texts again in their original languages and contexts‚ and the creative writers by re-imagining the lives of women in the Bible—to discover the "creative power‚ dignity‚ and goodness" of women in their texts. Their work on the character of Eve‚ the archetypal woman in Western thought‚ as she appears in the Genesis accounts of creation and

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    our novels and change the story. In real life‚ these are impossible‚ in Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair‚ these things occur everyday. The setting? England‚ 1985‚ in the midst of the Crimean War‚ where Shakespeare is fought over and England itself is a police state. All these affect deeply‚ how this novel influences the reader. The setting greatly affects the novel and in the case of The Eyre Affair‚ it could almost define it. Set in 1985 England‚ where gangs fight over Shakespeare and people

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    AMERICAN LITERATURE Intertextuality In The Hours Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author‚ but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text‚" she argues‚ "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com‚ Kristeva: Word‚ Dialogue‚ and

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    particular‚ inherently employs a more overt intertextuality than what is most commonly at play in televisual texts‚ because the foundation of this genre is in the humor created by references to other texts‚ genres‚ events‚ or people. This blatant intertextuality also exists in the program because of the integration other program’s creators in the television industry and the program’s adjacent industries‚ primarily‚ the music industry. Thus‚ intertextuality is the basis of the text’s structural categorization

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    Sekarwulan/126332047 Foundation of English Literature Text‚ Context and Intertextuality The term text‚ context and intertextuality are closely related. The word text is embedded with word context and intertextuality. The meaning of the term text is any kinds of written words that will be used in a certain context—cultural or social economy context—and the relation of each text to the texts surrounding it called intertextuality. Thus‚ when we read a text‚ we have to think about the interrelatedness’

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    internationally and have received awards ‚ they also add to their achievements four award-winning films for television (www.dv8.co.uk) . In this essay I will discuss the intertextuality that can be seen in Dv8 original film The Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson and how Newson approached the piece . Intertextuality can be defined as “the complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic to the creation or interpretation of the text”(Wall‚ 2007:97). Or

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    a “Intertextualities and Contradictions in Cambridge” In Cambridge by Caryl Phillips‚ the history of the slave trade is exposed through different points of view or narratives‚ one by an Englishwoman and another by a slave called Cambridge. Phillips wants the reader to understand how European merchants treated the slaves and make a connection to what they went through. Evelyn O’Callaghan is one of the editors of the Journal of West Indian Literature. She had many interests like contemporary West

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    Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan is a famous singer-song writer and has been for five decades. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political‚ social and philosophical‚ as well as literary influences. - In 2008‚ a Bob Dylan Pathway was opened in the singer’s honor in his birthplace of Duluth‚ Minnesota. - Bob Dylan was refered to in the novel The Messenger when Ed was describing his bad his career was going at his age. "Ed Kennedy is 19 and very much aware of how little he has going for him. After

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    Nao’s family members are introduced in her diary‚ where the use of intertextuality reveals the characters of many members. Due to the restrictions in the number of words‚ the characters of the following members Jiko‚ Haruki#1 and Haruki#2 will be described through the use of intertextuality. Jiko Yasutani is Nao’s great grandmother that self proclaims to be a hundred and four years old. Nao’s diary provides the audience with factual information of the many roles she had. She was a nun‚ novelist

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