{"product_id":"reflections-upon-childhood-and-adolescence-intertextual-dialogue-in-the-cement-garden-von-anna-wilczewska-1","title":"Reflections upon Childhood and Adolescence - Intertextual Dialogue in \"The Cement Garden\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThesis (M.A.) from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Gdansk, course: British literature, intertextuality, language: English, abstract: Within the full spectrum of various literary theories offered by modern criticism,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe theory of intertextuality deserves a particular attention. This ambitious concept,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproposed by Julia Kristeva in the 1960¿s, shed new light on the understanding and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapproach to a literary text. Influenced by Bakhtin¿s theory of dialogism, the French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escholar suggested a new model of communication which consists of two axes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehorizontal, involving communication between subject and addressee, and vertical which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis in an interaction between a text and a context. The two axes, as she claimed, coincide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich stresses the fact that ¿each word (text) is an intersection of word (texts) where at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleast one other word (text) can be read¿ (Kristeva in: Allen: 2000, 39). She further drew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea conclusion that ¿any text is constructed like a mosaic of quotations; any text is the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabsorption and transformation of another¿ (Kristeva in: Allen: 2000, 39). Consequently,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe can assume that any literary text does not exist on its own, but is rather in various\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eways linked with other literary texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarthes further develops Kristeväs original concept and states that:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[¿] a text is [¿] a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoriginal, blend and clash. Text is a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenturies of culture [¿] (Barthes in Allen: 2000, 13).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text exists only in respect to other, prior literary texts, called intertexts, with which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe new text enters into a discourse. Literary plots, genres, stylistic devices, different\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecultural symbols and images, methods of narration and many other aspects of a literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ework already existing in the literary tradition become a part of new text. (Allen: 2000,11) In this way a new literary text is always enriched by its intertexts which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomplement the new text and shape its meaning. Intertextuality, thus, can be understood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas a study of those aspects of a literary work which indicate a great dependence of both\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreation and reception of a given text on the whole network of the literary tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Nycz: 1995, 62 ).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother important facet of the theory of intertextuality is strictly connected with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean active role of the reader. As ¿the act of reading plunges us into a network of textual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelations¿ (Allen: 2000, 1), a considerable competence of the reader is required. In order\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto grasp a full potential of the text, the readers should be aware of the rich literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediscourse which takes place in the text. [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656394211\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656394211","offer_id":39446349873245,"sku":"9783656394211","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/b6bdc887-ac78-48f3-9dd6-5952411b63e0.jpg?v=1777959603","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/reflections-upon-childhood-and-adolescence-intertextual-dialogue-in-the-cement-garden-von-anna-wilczewska-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}