Poststructuralism

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dating from when

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1960 forward

Question 2

what it does

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reposing on the heritage of structuralism, revisioning its claims

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does it exist parallelly to structuralist approaches

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yes

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interested in

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diversity, paradox and conflict

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How is meaning constructed

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Through the interaction between the elements

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Characteristic Features

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Intertextuality, Eclectism, Discontinuity, Eroticization of language, Play experimentation, Acknowledgement of popular culture

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Tradition and the Individual talent

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The artists must not be dominated by individual influences, but express the “mind” of his culture, and create in awareness of the past

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Critical method

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necessary comparison and contrast with the preceding and contemporary works , tracing influences

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Anxiety of influence

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Writer always creates in reference to the already existing body of text, there is an ongoing contest with the predecessors, especially canonical (church) writers

Question 10

Anxiety of influence

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a condition in which strong poets view the great canonical writers as Freudian father figures who must be overcome by a process of first misreading and then re-writing

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Intertextuality

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text assumes its structure in relation with other texts

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Intertextuality

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text is a process

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Intertextuality

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each text is built of a mosaic of quotations (words, dialogue, and novel

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Intertextuality

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assumes immersion in history and culture

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Intertextuality

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meaning is created through the clash of meanings and traditions

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Intertextuality two axes

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horizontal axis connecting the author and reader of a text and the vertical axis which connects the text to other texts

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Intertextuality two axes

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uniting these two axes are shared codes: every text and every reading depends on prior codes

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Intertextuality

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the relation between texts, like quotations, plagiarism, allusion

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Hypertextuality

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the relation between the text and the hypotext…orginal vs sequels or translations

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Paratextuality

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the relation between the text and its paratext (the cover, the title, the preface

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anrchititextuality

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situating the text within its genre

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metatextuality

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explicit or implicit critical commentary of one text on another text

Question 23

Roland Barthes Quote Death of an author

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A text is a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, non of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations….The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior , never original. His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them

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Intertextuality Devices (Two)

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Citation Presupposition

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Citation

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direct quotes, Cliche, Allusion, Imitation, literary convention prequels, and sequels

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BRICOLAGE

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to tinker quoted by Levis-strauss

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Bricolage 4 types

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addition, deletion, substitution, transposition

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BRICOLAGE addition

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add something (character, location) to the original story

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BRICOLAGE deletion

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remove something from the original text such as changing the ending or removing a character

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BRICOLAGE Substitution

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change something like the ogre in Shriek replacing the traditional Prince Charming

Question 31

BRICOLAGE transposition

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fitting the idea into another time place or culture