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Intertextuality is "a term coined by Julia Kristeva to designate the various relationships that a given text may have with other texts", including "anagram, allusion, adaptation, translation, parody, pastiche, imitation, and other kinds of transformation" (Baldick, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms). At the beginning of the term, we will establish basic theoretical knowledge of the term 'intertextuality' and its various meanings. We will proceed with a reading and discussion of several contemporary novels and short stories that include overt or covert references to literary precursors. Texts on the reading list include Max Porter's Grief Is The Thing With Feathers (2015) that references a poem by Emily Dickinson in the title and Ted Hughes' Crow-poems with its central motive, and Sarah Hall's short story "Later His Ghost" (2017) that has a connection with William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Further texts we may consider are On Beauty (Zadie Smith) in connection with Howard's End (E.M. Forster), The Lost Child (Caryl Phillips) together with Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Ali Smith's short story "The Universal Story" together with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, or Jane Austen's Mansfield Park together with Catherine Johnson’s young adult novel The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo (2015). We will start with Hughes From the Life and Songs of the Crow and Max Porter's Grief is the Thing With Feathers – please buy and read! |
