Intertextual Interpretation Research Articles

Missionary’s Envision of Children in Late Qing China: Children’s Education and the Construction of Christian Discourse in Child’s Paper

In the late Qing Dynasty, religious periodicals by Western missionaries were made legal in China, and subsequently became an important manner of their missionary cause. Among them, Child’s Paper 小孩月报 (1875–1881) by John Marshall Willoughby Farnham, a Protestant missionary from the United States, endeavoured to convert child readers by carrying children’s stories of moral and emotional education. By concentrating on the educational elements of Child’s Paper, this article inspects how conversion was achieved via the intertextual interpretation of Christian doctrines within these educational elements. Specifically, how the image of little Christians and urchins, respectively, represents salvation and redemption in Christian morals. This article holds that the missionaries’ stress on the authority of Christian discourse in the education of Chinese children makes evident an increasing emphasis on the reformative effects of Christianity on Chinese children. Moreover, the conversion-education efforts by missionaries also construed helping Chinese children gain a cross-cultural perspective on Western religion, and arguably inspired later Chinese intellectuals’ to create newspapers for the purpose of the pre-primary education of Chinese children.

Between Eros and Love

Love is a common theme in the Western poetic tradition and gives rise to deep reflections on the vicissitudes of human existence at least since some works of Greco-Roman antiquity. This paper addresses the idea of poetry as a remedy for the affections caused by this feeling, based on what is suggested by the intertextual dialogue of two works: Idylls 11 by Theocritus, which presents the song of the amorous sufferings of Polyphemus in the face of Galatea; Eclogues 2 by Virgil, where the shepherd Coridon sings of his unrequited love for the puer delicatus Alexis. With the aim of presenting these ancient poets, interpreting their metapoetic reflections and proposing a parallel understanding of their works, I will proceed on a philological basis to advance an intertextual interpretation of their positions.

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS BETWEEN HALAL AND HARAM ISLAMIC MUSIC BASED ON THE QURAN AND HADITH

The understanding of the Qur'an and Hadith regarding music is still a matter of debate. Some scholars still insist that music is haram, on the other hand there are also scholars who say music is halal as long as it is still within positive limits. Therefore, the researcher conducted a textual analysis between Halal and Haram Islamic Music based on the Al-Quran and Hadith. This research was conducted with read, study, and analyze various existing literature, in the form of the Qur'an, hadith, and research results. By using a qualitative research approach, namely systematic research used to study or research an object on a natural setting without any manipulation in it and without there is a hypothesis test. The result of interpreting the hadith that prohibits music, textually will produce formative understanding and practice. That is, if you only rely on a hadith whose editorial forbids music, then enjoying music is haraam. However, in this case, the textual meaning cannot be practiced just like that because there are hadiths with other editors that allow music to be played. Thus, intertextual interpretation should not be carried out to find the message intended by the Prophet Muhammad. with the hadith. With intertextual meaning, it has a slight impact on extracting with contextual meaning, it results that substantially playing music is not an activity that is prohibited by the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

Ibrāhīm ‘Umar al-Biqā’ī: Embracing Previous Traditions Through Intertextual Interpretation

This article delves into the scholarly contributions of al-Biqā’ī, a thinker whose intellectual journey unfolded amidst the turbulent backdrop of the Crusades, a period marked by intense horizontal conflicts between Muslims and Christians. Despite the charged atmosphere of polemical exchanges, al-Biqā’ī’s approach to intertextual interpretation sets him apart as a unique figure. His receptivity to Christian and Jewish traditions in his Qur’anic interpretations reflects an openness that defies the prevailing discord. This study scrutinizes al-Biqā’ī’s perspective on the status of the Gospel and the Torah within the realm of Qur’anic interpretation. Employing textual analysis, we argue that al-Biqā’ī permits references to the Gospel and the Torah as complementary sources (isti’nās) within the interpretive framework. However, he restricts their use as foundational or legal arguments (istidlāl and ihtijāj), particularly in theological or doctrinal matters. Within the theological context, al-Biqā’ī advocates against referencing the Gospel or the Torah. Nevertheless, when these references are confined to the complementary realm, such as citing historical narratives more elaborately detailed in the Gospel and Torah, they enrich insight, knowledge, and the narrative fabric of Qur’anic interpretation.

‘Forgiveness’ in Building Bridges With Muslims: An Intertextual Analysis of the Joseph's Narrative

Joseph's story in Genesis 37–50 is well-known among Christians. It is similar to the Torah's account of Yōsef's life. The Islamic version celebrates the triumph of the virtuous. In contrast, the biblical narrative highlights the unwavering loyalty of Joseph to his family and forgiveness; an account that could serve as a model for coexistence and fostering harmonious interfaith relations. In this article, the Qurʾānic story of al-Yῡsuf, as well as the Jewish and Christian interpretations of the same story, are used for an intertextual interpretation. Drawing from the idea of ‘from the foreign to the familiar,’ the author describes Joseph's story in Islamic, Jewish and Christian traditions in that sequence. Joseph's story, she suggests, has valuable lessons for the Jews, Christians and Muslims who are connected with each other in a sense through this common narrative; she argues that an intertextual reading of similar narratives in their traditional sources has promise for building bridges between them.

Kristevan intertextuality between Waiting for Godot and The Pillowman

This study is focused on intertextual interpretation over the common elements in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. Both plays are excellent examples of how reality and imagination interact with one another. Waiting for Godot and The Pillowman are psychological plays that explore the relationship around existentialism, death, and future hope. Beckett and McDonagh are two well-known Irish playwrights who will probably always hold a special place in world literature. In this context, Beckett is widely regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century, both in Europe and across the globe. Besides, despite the fact that McDonagh began writing plays at the end of the twentieth century, he should be regarded as a playwright of the twenty-first. On the other hand, intertextuality is a text analysis strategy based on postmodernism, introduced by literary theorist Julia Kristeva in the late 1960s. According to the intertextual theory, all texts interact with one another inside the writer’s and reader's social and cultural background. Kristeva's intertextual theory later began to be used as one of the contemporary literary criticism methods. During the intertextual criticism, a bond is formed between the reader and the work they are reading. In this framework, the reader becomes the critic who delivers a unique process by detecting parallels between works. Actually, The Pillowman was written half a century after Waiting for Godot, and the plots of the two plays are quite different. However, the character pairs, character names, told stories, themes, phrases, setting, and feeling of hope in The Pillowman are similar to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. All these support Kristeva's theory of intertextuality that writers create a new text under the influence of several works they read in the past.

마태복음 23:26 본문비평과 해석

In the Gospel of Matthew of the GNTSUP4/SUP/GNTSUP5/SUP, the only case where the textual critical grade D is given is 23:26. However, it is surprising that few of the commentaries on the Gospel according to Matthew deal with textual criticism of this verse in detail. B. M. Metzger, one of editors of the GNTSUP4/SUP/GNTSUP5/SUP regarded the singular genitive pronoun αὐτοῦ (of cup) as the original rather than the plural genitive pronoun αὐτῶν (of cup and bowl) which later scribes altered. He briefly explains that παροψίς (dish) of Matthew 23:25 was added to verse 26. However, Metzger provides no concrete evidence for his own claims. In this verse, there is no consensus even among the editors of GNTSUP4/SUP/GNTSUP5/SUP, so αὐτοῦ (of cup) is indicated in the text of GNTSUP4/SUP/GNTSUP5/SUP, but D is given as its critical grade. For the textual criticism of Matthew 23:26, this article first studies the external evidence that examines the support of the manuscripts. Then, the structural analysis (namely colon analysis) of Matthew 23:13-36, the textual context of 23:26, the literary style of Matthew, and the purpose of writing and the main theology of the Gospel of Matthew are explored in turn in order to analyze the internal evidence. Finally, the conclusion of textual criticism is suggested in the light of the intertexts of the Gospel of Matthew 23:26.BR Through this study of textual criticism of Matthew 23:26, it is suggested that when attempting New Testament Greek textual criticism, not only the external evidence but also the detailed internal evidence should be investigated. For internal evidence, it is suggested to comprehensively consider the structural analysis, the purpose of writing, the study of core theology, and the intertextual interpretation that have been overlooked in previous studies. This kind of study is more appropriate when the text critical grade is low. In addition, this comprehensive analysis has the advantage that it does not stop with the theoretical study of textual criticism itself, but also encompasses the grammatical interpretation of context and structure, and the theological interpretation that considers main theology. The present researcher suggests that textual criticism which stayed at the level of reconstructing the original text should be developed in the direction that can provide practical help to interpret a text.

Problem of Inner Hierarchy and Typology of Interdisciplinary Methodology

The main aspect of the modern humanitarian thinking is the link of two fundamental methodology such as interparadugmality and interdisciplinarity. The padigme means how the scientific discipline considers the researched object on the certain stage of it’s existence. The methodological discipline studies an aspect of the reality. The modern understanding of the interdisciplinary methodology means textual researches on the bases of linguistics, journalist genre theory and modern cultural theory. It leads us to the typological features of the interdisciplinarity methodology. These typological features are grouped as follows: The first  typological sign should be considered as an internal complexity of this methodology. From the paradigm standpoint, our research should be simultaneously linguocultural, intertextual and synergetic. The next typological sign of the interdisciplinary methodology is dynamism.  Since at the initial stage of interdisciplinarity, the linguistically understood textual aspect required linguoculturological interpretation, then it has become necessary to provide intertextual interpretation of linguoculturology itself. And at this final stage the paradigm synthesis needs to be based on synergetism as a completely new methodological paradigm. The third typological sign should be named on the bases of logical interrelation, where interdisciplinarity is characterized by complexity and dynamism. So, from this point of  view we should consider that the interdisciplinary methodology  is characterized by the capacity of seeing through the inner layers of the text phenomenon. Interparadigmal mythology is the synthesis of the theory and the methodology. We can name the paradigms of a higher hierarchy, they are: anthropocentrism, culturocentrizm and linguoculturology. As to the intertextuality and sinergetizm, in spite of their great importance and validity toward textual research these paradigms just beginning to be established in modern linguistics.

Salvation for Israel and the Nations: Disputing the Interpretation of Isaiah 25:6–8 as an Announcement of Doom

Abstract Is the vision of the eschatological banquet on Mount Zion in Isa 25:6–8 an announcement of doom for the nations? Recently, Michael P. Maier has argued that an intertextual interpretation results in understanding the banquet as their last meal. Underlying his reasoning is the fear that the traditional Christian understanding of the vision, as a universal salvation oracle, might lead to supersessionism, the substitution of Israel with the church. He, therefore, tries to give new credibility to a particular Jewish interpretive tradition dating back to the medieval exegetes Rashi, Ibn Ezra, and David Kimḥi. This tradition connects the vision of the eschatological banquet with texts concerning the cup of wrath, from which yhwh let his enemies drink. However, it seems to contradict the flow of the text to restrict its meaning to the rehabilitation of Israel as Maier argues. This article examines Maier’s intertextual reasoning and argues that, on the basis of text and context, it remains valid to understand the vision of the eschatological banquet as a salvation oracle for both Israel and the nations.

МЕТАФОРА «ЛОНДОН – ТЕКСТ» КАК ВАЖНЕЙШАЯ ОНТОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ МЕТАФОРА В СОСТАВЕ ЛОНДОНСКОГО ТЕКСТА АНГЛИЙСКОЙ ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРЫ

The article examines the key ontological metaphor within the London supertext of English linguistic culture – the metaphor, according to which the topos of the British capital is represented in the form of semiotic space, or a text open to reading and interpretation. The London supertext is viewed as an invariable semantic construct, the total sum of semes to be found in all the texts about the city, which have already been or will potentially be written. Along with the combinations of semes, static and dynamic, the London supertext incorporates standard algorithms of their deployment into real textual sequences. The article regards metaphor as a basic operation linking the supertextual levels. Metaphor is substantiated semantically, i.e. the article explains the possibility of predicating unobvious semantic components. The article views the metaphoric realizations of the London supertext from the perspective of possible worlds in semantics. Proceeding from an analysis of belles-lettres texts from the English literary canon, the article concludes that reading London as a text implies the scenarios of its intra- and intertextual interpretation (with the involvement of other cultural codes and information from previous eras) of topographical and notional wandering, and of acquiring space as perceiving textual meaning. Such scenario-type groups of semes coupled with the standard strategies of their realization constitute the dynamic component of the London supertext.

Michael Riffaterre’s ‘Interpretant’ Reinterpreted

Bible exegesis is dealing at times with the accusation of superficial implementation of methods from various fields of science and of disrespect for the theological character of the Bible in hermeneutical and methodological presuppositions. This accusation can be directed also towards the many uses of intertextuality in biblical scholarship. The article challenges this situation and proposes what has been called a ‘theological model of intertextual interpretation’ – an approach based on literary theory of the ‘interpretant’ as understood by Michaele Riffaterre – that tends to respect more fully the theological character of the biblical text. After a detailed description of the approach and its methodological elements, the second part of the article deals with an example of the application of thereof – an intertextual exegesis of Rom 2:7 and Wis 2:23; Wis 6:18.19.

Parody of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita in Umberto Eco’s ‘Granita’

ABSTRACTParody is regarded as a ‘beside-or-against’ song. Based on the theories of parody and intertextuality, this paper analyses the parodic means adopted in Umberto Eco’s short story ‘Granita,’ which is meant to be a parody of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The study proceeds from three aspects: parody as imitation, parody as reconstruction and intertextuality as text of pleasure and jouissance. The imitation can be reflected through creation of characters, rhetorical devices, narrative strategy and arrangement of plots. The reconstruction is realised through readers’ unfulfilled expectations and intertextual interpretations. The text of bliss is embodied in readers’ decoding of the signifieds of the two texts from the signifiers of the phonological, lexical, textual and cultural layers. By parodying Nabokov’s Lolita, Eco aims to criticise the hypocrisy and absurdity of modern world, and at the same time, to affirm the aesthetic beauty of art.

Peter and the Walrus, or Petersburg at the Limits of Intertextuality

Intertextual analysis is a stock‐in‐trade of Russian modernist studies, especially when it comes to high modernism, bent as it was on countering the vague suggestiveness of the early modernist discourse with another kind of allusiveness that similarly relied on active readership but demoted metaphysical speculation in favor of cultural erudition manifest in the reader's ability to position a literary text within a network of verbal, visual, or musical artifacts. Andrei Bely's Petersburg (1913) exemplifies this practice. Yet there comes a time when newly identified subtexts fail to enrich our understanding of the novel, thereby testing the limits of intertextual interpretation as an analytical method deaf to cultural knowledge that is not formally codified and, by this token, is less accessible to latter‐day readers than to modernist artists and their interpretive communities. This essay explores obscene humor as one such presently invisible aspect of Petersburg. The identification and interpretation of the bawdy in the novel are predicated on the reader's familiarity with the lowest discursive register of Bely's day, a register whose taboo nature hinders cultural codification, defying the tried‐and‐true tools of intertextual analysis. Pushing the limits of intertextuality, Petersburg's bawdiness reflects the epistemological crisis of Russian modernism transitioning between its historical iterations. A veteran of the post‐1905 polemics in the modernist cultural community, Bely ridicules in Petersburg the values and ideals he still holds dear, better to safeguard them from the neophytes of “new art,” who mock the metaphysical bent of early modernism, and from its epigones, who devalue these metaphysics by inflationary overuse. Reviving the practice of romantic irony, Bely at once codifies and ridicules his innermost aspirations, following Vladimir Solovyov's example.

Leonora Tükörországban : Claus Guth Fidelio-rendezésének pszichoanalitikus olvasata

In 2015, the German director staged Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Salzburg Festival. Guth’s intertextual interpretation rethinks the meanings of prison and of Hades, of the underworld, for the 21st century. The paper seeks theoretical reference points for a more nuanced reading of this interpretation of Fidelio, and highlights above all the influence of Jean Cocteau’s and Robert Wilson’s work, in addition to various cinematic and theatrical allusions.

Madman, genius, hack, auteur?: intertextuality, extratextuality, and intention in ‘Ed Wood films’ after Plan 9 From Outer Space

ABSTRACTEdward D. Wood, Jr is widely described as both the ‘worst director of all time’ and a cult auteur with a unique vision and a tendency to draw inspiration from his own life. This reputation, however, is primarily based on three of his best known badfilms from the 1950s, with the subsequent two decades – the most productive of his career – largely ignored. This article examines a selection of what have become known as ‘Ed Wood films’ after Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) and interrogates Wood’s status as a cult auteur. Wood’s haphazard approach to filmmaking means that auteurist signatures, if they are to be located at all, often emerge accidentally – despite his intentions, rather than because of them. Finding a single analytical approach to his films as a unified body of work is difficult. Looking beyond Plan 9, therefore, allows for a more complete, though not necessarily coherent, understanding of the filmmaker than the constructed cult ‘character’ of Ed Wood can provide. Furthermore, the tendency towards biographical and intertextual interpretations of Wood’s films are inconsistently encouraged by the films themselves, therefore representing an example of the ways bad movies are read in both unintended and intended ways.

The Analysis of J.R.R.Toliken’s Ecological Responsibility Consciousness in The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R.Tolkien, a distinguished Oxford University professor who specialized in the study of language development and early medieval literature. He has written famous books like The Hobbits and The Silmarillion, but his literary reputation mainly rests upon his fantasy-romance novel, The Lord of the Rings. Since its publication, the novel has got great popularity among western countries. It was even selected as “the most popular book in history” on line. As Hollywood director Peter Jackson’s film The Lord of the Rings was filmed, a zealous love for “the magic ring” has wiped throughout the world. No matter scholars or common enthusiasm readers both show great passion for this novel. Archetypal analysis and the origin of myth in Middle-earth, fantasy technique etc. have been widely used to review or interpret the text of this novel. Based on the intertextual interpretation of J.R.R.Tolkien’s life experience and the novel, and through the viewpoint of ecological responsibility consciousness this paper attempts to explore Tolkien’s seek of homeland, which reveals Tolkien’s country yearning and furthermore presents his ecological value.

METODE PEMAHAMAN HADIS

understanding of hadith method is the way to understand the hadith. The book entitled Methodology of Understanding Hadiths written by Arifuddin Ahmad was developed into several techniques, such as textual interpretation techniques, contextual interpretations, and intertextual interpretations. In this study, the writer used library research methodology. The development of hadith from time to time is very fast, so in understanding the hadith there were various methods. Researchers and observers must understand the methodology so that the diverse views on Islam can be understood in depth, it can bringing the people to the Rahmatan Lil Alamin

Review on the monograph: Intertext: theme and variations. Phenomena of language and culture in intertextual interpretation. M.: Book House "LIBROKOM", 2018, 272 p.

Review on the monograph: Intertext: theme and variations. Phenomena of language and culture in intertextual interpretation. M.: Book House "LIBROKOM", 2018, 272 p.

Psychological Essentialism in Serek ha-Yaḥad and the Two Spirits Treatise

Abstract This paper investigates the psychological mechanisms that underpin Qumran sectarian dualism and its construction of in-group/out-group boundaries. Specifically, evidence from experimental and developmental psychology and cognitive anthropology is used to argue that Serek ha-Yaḥad and the Two Spirits Treatise (1QS 3:13–4:26) reflect a deeply-engrained psychological essentialism wherein non-group members are conceptualized as having inherently different biological essences. This essentialist tendency is easily extended to the social domain in what scholars call the “naturalization” of social groups. After reviewing this literature, the paper examines the Serek and Treatise’s use of kinship terms, the word “spirit,” and language denoting human nature and living species, in order to demonstrate that essentialist intuitions about outsiders provide a foundation for the sect’s dualistic worldview. Importantly, the essentialist thinking in these texts is also firmly grounded in and channeled through the intertextual interpretation of scripture, drawing heavily on the rich creation vocabulary in Genesis 1–3.

The Most Unnatural Act: Interdisciplinarity and Working Across the Arts

In this paper we report on our initiative over the last several years to articulate and deepen our understanding of interdisciplinarity across disciplines, but particularly through the arts. In this paper art and analysis attempt to speak across disciplines to one another. By incorporating our ideas regarding the interdisciplinary properties of art in an alternative article form -one unlike the traditional formal schema of academic publishing -we invite readers to engage in an intertextual interpretation, and to consider the many forms that may express research. Reading across, over, behind and in the margins of the intertexts we have provided, may contribute to a better appreciation of individual and collective ways of understanding, being, and acting.