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"Call me Jonah." These are the first three words of "The Cat's Cradle"
by Vonnegut. Think of the potential for intertextual dialogue between
Moby Dick, The Book of Jonah, and possibly the Qu'ran (Ishmael).
http://pithekos.net/writing/bibliotheca/chapter1.html
(quote)
The idea of the word as a dialog makes it possible to view the
structure of a literary text not as something given, but as a dynamic
relation to other structures. The literary text is to be analyzed as a
dialogic relationship of several elements such as the writing subject,
the addressee, the past and present cultural context. This dialog, on
Kristeva's analysis, has two axes: the horizontal one (subject -
addressee) and the vertical one (text - context) (1983: 394-396). What
is of most relevance for our purposes is the vertical axis - intertextual
dialog. Such is also the most widely used meaning of intertextuality. It
is something that happens between a text and other texts. Since
words have always already been used, and modified by those multiple
uses, a text can only be a modification of what has already been
written.
(end of quote)
http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_quotes.html
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he
would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating
interpretations.
-- Postscript to The Name of the Rose (1984)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_ccradle.html
by Vonnegut. Think of the potential for intertextual dialogue between
Moby Dick, The Book of Jonah, and possibly the Qu'ran (Ishmael).
http://pithekos.net/writing/bibliotheca/chapter1.html
(quote)
The idea of the word as a dialog makes it possible to view the
structure of a literary text not as something given, but as a dynamic
relation to other structures. The literary text is to be analyzed as a
dialogic relationship of several elements such as the writing subject,
the addressee, the past and present cultural context. This dialog, on
Kristeva's analysis, has two axes: the horizontal one (subject -
addressee) and the vertical one (text - context) (1983: 394-396). What
is of most relevance for our purposes is the vertical axis - intertextual
dialog. Such is also the most widely used meaning of intertextuality. It
is something that happens between a text and other texts. Since
words have always already been used, and modified by those multiple
uses, a text can only be a modification of what has already been
written.
(end of quote)
http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_quotes.html
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he
would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating
interpretations.
-- Postscript to The Name of the Rose (1984)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/kv_ccradle.html