Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Talk about intertextuality
From Wikipedia:
Intertextuality is a relationship between two or more texts that quote from one another, allude to one another, or otherwise connect. In the work of Roland Barthes, intertextuality is the concept that the meaning of an artistic work does not reside in that work, but in the viewers. In the work of Julia Kristeva (who coined the term in 1966), intertextuality suggests the interdependence of texts, the continual deferment of meaning through and between texts.
First I lifted
this, which was in turn lifted from
somewhere else. Then, I realized that someone referred to it,
here. Which was then picked up by
him.
Phew! That was a mouthful. But I'd say: literary concepts can be more complicated than real life sometimes.
Only sometimes.
Other times the unnecessary jargon that accompanies academic discussions discombobulates more that they illuminate.
But then again, the little theatrical performances that characterize our lives create rather sticky situations that if we cannot suck up, have to stick with.
It seems like I'm speaking in rhymes and riddles, but no sire, actually I'm just reenacting the constantly interrogating subversive but never explanatory aspect of Gothic literature.
But "Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again" lest someone stumbles upon my linguistic playground while in quest for something more intellectually substantial.
Like I did.
Aaahhh, the satisfaction of voyeurism.
cLoUd DriFteD bY at
2:22 PM
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