What is intertextuality? How does intertextuality challenge E.D. Hirsch’s idea that a text has a single meaning created by its author? Explain with reference to examples drawn from any media format. According to American literary critic‚ E.D. Hirsch‚ in order to interpret a body of text‚ one must ask one’s self the only question that can be answered objectively "what‚ in all probability‚ did the author mean to convey?" He believed that the author’s intended meaning equates the meaning of a
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was an extremely sexist time period. As we all know‚ women have always been treated in a certain way‚ had to live up to certain standards‚ and please others before themselves. The threes stories “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ “The Story of an Hour”‚ and “Silk Stockings” are all examples that reveal some of the sexism during this time. The three stories compare and contrast in many different ways. Each story expressed how life was as a woman‚ their struggles‚ and even what was going on in their minds. Each
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Chopin’s A Pair of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers Mrs. Sommers‚ of Kate Chopin’s "A Pair of Silk Stockings" faces a major Man-vs.-Society conflict. She is a perfect example of how humans are tempted by material gain‚ "the life of luxury"‚ and the vicious way society judges things (or people). Society views people who live in the lap of luxury as "gods"‚ they are above those who are not so fortunate. Anyone can fall prey to this common societal problem‚ even innocent "Little Mrs. Sommers". This
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relatively strong pincerlike parts on their mouth‚ the bite could leave a scar on hard tissue. There have been tries to make clothes from the spider silk in the past. At the Paris Exhibition of 1900‚ there were two bed hangings shown‚ for example. In 2004 a shawl was produced by a textile designer and entrepreneur‚ which used the silk from golden silk weavers collected in the wild. It took over three years to finish and the shawl was as exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in 2009.
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Base on the document‚ Marco Polo followed his father and uncle travel along the silk road trading goods from Europe. Due to his ability to speak four different languages and describe things into details‚ Khubilai Khan the emperor of the Mongol including China decides to keep him which he later became an advisor and tax collector to the emperor. When Marco Polo returned to Italy after spending seventeen years in the Mongol kingdom where he gives account about how the Mongol won their battles and dominant
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In the stimulus extracted from Peter Corris’ Deep Water (pp. 49-53) and the film Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking‚ directed by Simon Cellan Jones‚ the detectives and the world of crime are represented through various language features and values. The characteristics of these detectives Cliff Hardy and Sherlock Holmes are developed and portrayed through these features. Language in the Deep Water stimulus is used heavily to represent the wealth of Double Bay. This effect is obtained
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A Pair of Silk Stockings "A Pair of Silk Stockings" is a story about a woman who loves her children‚ but through an ordinary pair of stockings‚ realizes that she must do something for herself. The stockings gave her some freedom from just being a parent. They introduced her to a world of fantastic rewards that she greatly deserved. Mrs. Sommers didn ’t really change‚ she became a better person. The author uses imagery to describe her shopping spree and her entire day‚ as I will point
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demonstrates the racial discrimination that existed for so long in the United States in which African-Americans were regarded as inferior. “Red Silk Stockings” and “Dinner Guest: Me” both gives us an insight on two totally different situations yet each of them portrays the subordinate status that African-Americans suffered by the whites. In the lines of “Red Silk Stockings” we will find a setting where low class African-Americans have accepted the fact that whites use the beauty of the black woman for
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and 1450 C.E.‚ the Silk Road changed‚ while at the same time holding on to its original purpose. The trade of spices and goods‚ to and from‚ Asia and Europe remained constant‚ while the materials being traded slowly changed. The political boundaries as well as the national identities of the countries in the Silk Road also were altered. While the basic purpose of the Silk Road remained mostly unchanged‚ the goods traded on it‚ and the areas it went through‚ did. While the Silk Road originally began
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Andy Warhol Best-known for his silk-screened photographs of Marilyn Monroe‚ Jacqueline Kennedy‚ Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley‚ Andy Warhol accustomed artists and critics worldwide to use the art of borrowed imagery. Replicating previous artwork from decades before him‚ Andy Warhol became the founding father of appropriation‚ that has now become a symbol of postmodernism‚ and an artistic approach for an era in which concepts of innovation and authorship are thoroughly questioned. This theory
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