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Tekstanalysis and History

Tekstanalysis and History. Session Seven: TRAVEL WRITING. Richard Holmes, ”In Stevenson’s Footsteps”. Agenda. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism Group work: Richard Holmes, ”In Stevenson’s Footsteps” Group presentation and discussion Assignment Two. Intertextuality.

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Tekstanalysis and History

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  1. Tekstanalysis and History Session Seven: TRAVEL WRITING. Richard Holmes, ”In Stevenson’s Footsteps” Text analysis and history

  2. Agenda • An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism • Group work: Richard Holmes, ”In Stevenson’s Footsteps” • Group presentation and discussion • Assignment Two Text analysis and history

  3. Intertextuality […]the multiple ways in which one literary text is made up of other texts, by means of its overt or covert citations and allusions, its repetitions and transformations of the formal and substantive features of earlier texts, or simply its unavoidable participation in the common stock of linguistic and literary conventions and procedures that are ”always already” in place and constitute the discourses into which we are born. (Abrams, 317) Text analysis and history

  4. Graham Greene, ”I Spy” • At last he got his courage back by telling himself in his curiously adult way that if he were caught now there was nothing to be done about it, and he might as well have his smoke. He put a cigarette in his mouth and then remembered that he had no matches. For a while he dared not move. Three times the searchlight hit the shop as he muttered taunts and encouragements. ’May as well be hung for a sheep,’ ’Cowardly, cowardly custard,’ grown-up and childish exhortations oddly mixed. (535) Text analysis and history

  5. Idioms • I might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as a lamb. • Cowardly cowardly custard, can't cut the mustard! Text analysis and history

  6. Jeanette Winterson, ”The 24-Hour Dog” • I gave him a name. It was Nimrod, the mighty hunter of Genesis, who sought out his quarry and brought it home. (14) Text analysis and history

  7. James Joyce, ”The Dead” Intertextuality: • ”He was undecided about the lines from Robert Browning for he feared they would be above the heads of his hearers. Some quotation that they would recognise from Shakespeare or from the Melodies would be better” (NE2, 2174). Text analysis and history

  8. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims Progress Intertextual references: • John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, from this world to that which is to come (1678-1684) • Romance: • Quest • Pastoral • Picaresque Text analysis and history

  9. R.L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey … Intertextuality: • John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, from this world to that which is to come (1678-1684): pp. 14, 32 • Romance: • Quest • Pastoral • Picaresque Text analysis and history

  10. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism Text analysis and history

  11. ”Homer Scream” Text analysis and history

  12. ”Lisa Scream” Text analysis and history

  13. Edward Munch, ”Skriket” Text analysis and history

  14. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism Text analysis and history

  15. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism Text analysis and history

  16. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism Text analysis and history

  17. Consequences of intertextuality: postmodernism • Any text is an intertext - a text which is made up of other texts • From work to text: • the death of the Author and the birth of the text Text analysis and history

  18. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress Text analysis and history

  19. Group work: Richard Holmes, "In Stevenson's Footsteps" • the non-fictional aspects, especially essay memoir and autobiography • the aspects of displaced romance: quest, picaresque, pastoral • the allegorical aspects, especially concerning reading and writing • The intertextual aspects Text analysis and history

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