1. Textual Analysis and Textual Theory
Session Nine
Søren Hattesen Balle
English
Department of Culture and Identity

2. Agenda Introduction: the summary assignment for today and next time
Introduction: today’s session
Presentation:
travel writing revisited
Intertextuality and postmodernism
Class room discussion:
Richard Holmes, ”In Stevenson’s Footsteps (1984)
travel writing and the thematic function of intertextuality

3. Summary of Session Eight
Paul Fussel’s concept of displaced romance:
Quest
Pastoral
Picaresque

4. Travel writing and allegory
Allegory: primary and secondary orders of signification
Travelling = living and dying (life is a journey)
Travelling = reading and writing (what is suggested about the activities of reading and writing?)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. Idioms I might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as a lamb.
Cowardly cowardly custard, can't cut the mustard!

8. 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).

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

10. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress

11. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

12. Introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

13. Marcell Duchamp, Mona Lisa (1919)

14. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

15. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

16. ”Homer Scream”

17. ”Lisa Scream”

18. Edward Munch, ”Skriket” (1893)

19. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

20. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

21. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

22. An introduction to intertextuality and postmodernism

23. Portrait conventions

24. 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
genre (architextuality)
context (intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, hypotextuality)
The author is no longer the origin and end of meaning
Texts have no beginnings or endings

25. Richard Holmes, "In Stevenson's Footsteps“ (1984)
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