Intertextual Research Articles

El Tercer Abecedario Espiritual y los Ejercicios Espirituales de san Ignacio Observaciones comunes

This article analyzes the common theological and spiritual places of two works and processes that were relevant in 16th century in Spain: Third Spiritual Alphabet (1527) by Francisco de Osuna and the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Both represent two seemingly opposite central schools in the history of spirituality: the Franciscan Mysticism and the Ignatian Spirituality. However, and through intertextual analysis, after offering a descriptive framework of the context, we study a series of relevant confluences for Theology and Spirituality: 1) The immediate Experience of God; 2) The recollection or non-fragmentation of the understanding in the transformative process in God; 3) Light or Lucidity as a gift of spiritual discernment and adherence to Christ, visible through the gift of tears.

Hypertextuality representation in a novel of J. Barnes: a history of the world in 10½ chapters

Background: The 21st century is marked by a drastic development of computer technology, which caused the growing interest in the hypertext. Despite the fact that it is mainly associated with the informational technology, the hypertext has also been a center of cross-disciplinary researches, as well as in the field of text linguistics.
 Purpose: Hence, the present article deals with the hypertextuality phenomenon in the emotive prose.
 Design and methods: By implementing the methods of comparative, structural, contextual, and intertextual analysis, the compositional and linguistic means of its representation are investigated on the basis of the novel by J. Barnes A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters.
 Results: Julian Barnes is one of the most popular contemporary British writers. He is considered a postmodernism icon, whereas an American writer and critic J. C. Oates calls him a “pre-postmodernist”. He is an author to more than 20 novels. A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989) is a novel where the author experimented with a form. The book consists of ten novellas and Parenthesis. As far as the novel is considered an icon of postmodernistic literature, the revelation of a hypertext system there makes it possible to claim hypertextuality a distinctive marker of a postmodernistic perception of the world.

Lo slabbrarsi dell'io nelle prose brevi di Tozzi

This article considers the configuration of the psychical dynamic in short prose texts by Federigo Tozzi – texts, which switch between self-reflection, lyrical prose and storytelling, and which respond to a poetics that overcomes naturalism. Through textual and intertextual analysis of the recurring motifs as well as discursive and rhetorical strategies in Barche capovolte, Bestie, Cose and Persone, we can see that the subject who is speaking in these texts appears to be exposed to the phenomenon of an overlapping relationship between what is perceived and what is imagined, and sometimes also to a blurring of the spatial and temporal limits of his experiences. This ‘I’ begins to communicate with the ‘other’ (with objects of a reality that is both internal and external, considered animate and endowed with intentionality) in order to analyse the enigmatic multiplication of the self or rather the fragmentation of the self. And it is a communication destined to remain on hold. In these texts there is a clear mark left also by the reading of William James’s psychological studies. By examining Tozzi´s literary works and letters, it is evident that he was interested in some of the American philosopher and psychologist’s theses, including those concerning the conscience, but he freely used them in a literary function in respect of his own views on poetics.

Цвет как религиозный семиотический код и языковые средства его выражения в произведениях М. А. Булгакова и О. Бокеева

By means of an intertextual analysis the article considers color as a semiotic code along with its perception by Turkic and Slavic peoples. The subjects of the study are M. Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita and O. Bokeev’s story The Trace of Lightning and its original text in Kazakh.

PRECEDENTIAL INTERTEXT IN THE POEM “THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

The poem "The Grand Inquisitor" is part of the novel "The Brothers Karamazov," written by Ivan Karamazov about Christian freedom of will and told by him to his brother Alyosha, who rightly perceived it as an Orthodox theodicy. The article presents an intertextual analysis of the precedent texts used by F. M. Dostoevsky in the poem "The Grand Inquisitor". In particular, the meanings of direct quotations from the New Testament, especially its last book, the Revelation of John the Theologian, and the translated apocrypha "The Walking of the Virgin in Torment" are interpreted; medieval Western European mysteries in the paraphrase of V. Hugo; poetic quotations from the works of A. S. Pushkin, V. A. Zhukovsky, F. I. Tyutchev, which linked together the axiological concepts of the narrative text. Appeals to the precedent texts of world literature contribute to the disclosure of the multifaceted symbolism of the poem, which glorifies the spiritual freedom of humanity as an act of faith, and help to generalize and deepen its axiological discourse. The author analyzes the speech and behavioral tactics of the Grand Inquisitor, based on the substitution of concepts characteristic of the techniques of "black rhetoric". In contrast to the Grand Inquisitor's distortion of cause-and-effect relations and the concepts of good and evil, and his denial of the idea of Christian freedom, direct and indirect quoting of texts that have become part of the heritage of world culture creates a text rich in axiological meanings, designed to influence the spiritual space of the reader, enriching it and orienting it to the correct understanding of eternal truths.

Book Review: Intertextuality in Practice

Book Review: Intertextuality in Practice

Intertekstualitas dalam Puisi Arab: Puisi al-Ḥallāj dan Fārūq Juwaydah

This study aims to reveal the intertextual found between al-Ḥallāj’s poem (qaṣīdah) and Faruq Juwaidah’s wa Tāba al-Qalb poem. In this case, it refers to the basic assumption of intertext studies, namely that the texts or works that appear today are inseparable from the influence and role of the works that previously existed long before. Furthermore, in intertextual studies, old works that are used as a reference in making new works are called hypograms, while new works written by new authors that appear later are called transformational works. The method in this research is using descriptive analysis method. While the approach used is intertextual. Based on the results of the intertextual analysis conducted by researcher on qaṣīdah al-Ḥallāj and wa-Tāba al-Qalb poem, the researchers found (1) wa-Tāba al-Qalb poem is a form of transformation of qaṣīdah al-Ḥallāj, (2) wa-Tāba al-Qalb poem is the response from qaṣīdah al-Ḥallāj. The results of this study indicate that the impact or influence of old literary works on those that emerged later was very strong.

Intertextuality of Characters in Pygmalion

Intertextuality of Characters in Pygmalion

Books Becoming Museums: Exploring Intertextuality and Pictorial Influence in Susan Howe’s Debths

Books Becoming Museums: Exploring Intertextuality and Pictorial Influence in Susan Howe’s Debths

Proverbs 1–15

Proverbs 1–15

The discursive creation of ideology in the contemporary Chinese political context

The chapter focuses on a new ideological formulation introduced in 2018 in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China. The contribution aims at studying the discursive strategy in which the item is embedded, and through which it is promoted, by analysing Chinese political discourse in a diachronic perspective between 2013 and 2019. Using a selection parameter of intertextuality, the author has compiled a corpus of texts (in the Chinese language) through which this multifaceted discursive strategy is constructed. Drawing on the discourse-historical approach (Reisigl, Wodak 2009, p. 89; Wodak 2001, pp. 65-66) in a critical discourse analysis perspective, the paper will show how the discursive strategy performs a synergic action to disseminate the new ideology formulation by addressing two sub-topics, and, in parallel, how the texts intentionally promote two main macro-topics of Chinese political discourse.

Dharmarāja and Dhammarāja (I) Yudhiṣṭhira on anger, patience, forgiveness and peace (Mahābhārata 3,30)


 
 
 Yudhiṣṭhira, often referred to in the Mahābhārata (MBh) as Dharmarāja and created for an ideal ruler, is also portrayed as a hero full of doubts about his status and duties, sometimes even advocating ideas that are at odds with his status and social affiliation. This is the case in the passage analysed here in this paper, MBh 3,30. The king, deprived of his kingdom and humiliated in exile, presents a diatribe of sorts in the presence of his brothers and wife in which he condemns anger as a reaction to wrongs suffered while praising patience and forgiveness, while also being a supporter of peace. The reactions to his words, which are expressed in the follow‐ ing chapters, as well as the general approach to the role of kṣatriya and the ruler in the epic, may indicate that Yudhiṣṭhira’s words were not fully accepted. On the other hand, a comparison of Chapter 3,30 with selected parts of the Pāli Canon allows us to see how much the ideas put in Yudhiṣṭhira’s mouth have in common with those that can be found in the texts of early Buddhism. On the basis of the proposed intertextual analysis, the author of the paper would also like to purposively reflect on the inclusion in the epic of passages that are a departure from the ethos of warrior and ruler, widely promoted in the epic.
 
 

Problems of Intertextuality in Audio-Visual Arts

Abstract At the present stage, the visualisation process covers all areas of life that come into contact with information and its presentation. Specialists and researchers in the relevant fields of activity are increasingly using the concepts that have been formed on the basis of printed text in the audio-visual arts. Such an example is the use of intertextuality, which is currently one of the promising areas for research on the example of audio and visual material (film, video, music, photography). The aim of the study was to identify the main current problems of the use of intertextuality in the audio-visual arts on the example of the two most common forms – film and music. The main methods used in this work are intertextual analysis, as well as discourse analysis, because for this method the area of interest is the study of discourse changes associated with intertextuality. As a result of the analysis, it was found that one of the problems of intertextuality is the uncertainty and lack of unity in its understanding between the followers of different approaches to the doctrine of intertext; several problems were identified. The authors propose solutions to the identified problems of the theory of intertextuality in the audio-visual arts, which confirms the practical significance of the study.

Rūmī’s Mathnawī, Book Two

Abstract Early in Mathnawī Book Two appears a heavily-debated hemistich: “An interval was needed in order that the blood might turn to milk.” Here Rūmī uses three distinct means to introduce the notion of “Transfiguration of the Senses”: a religious conceit; an allegory – in fact, a common Persian-language proverb; and a brief explanation of Ḥusām al-Dīn’s spiritual ascension. Lacking familiarity with Rūmī’s symbolic language and the transfigurational concept he wishes to introduce, commentators have been unable to reconcile the proverb with the account of Ḥusām al-Dīn’s ascension. To further complicate the issue, Aflākī attributes the delay to the grief of the recently widowed Ḥusām al-Dīn. Here, using textual, contextual and intertextual analysis, we decode Rūmī’s symbolic language and explain “The Transfiguration of the Senses,” as well as Ḥusām al-Dīn’s role as its catalyst. Our findings also lead to a revised chronology of Ḥusām al-Dīn’s spiritual journey and his relationship with Rūmī.

THE CONCEPTS OF ‘METATEXTUALITY’ AND ‘METAFICTION’ IN LITERARY CRITICISM

Undoubtedly, the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st century are notable for the extensive artistic experiment, including metatextual and metafictional phenomena. Such scholars as Gérard Genette, Anna Wierzbicka, Patricia Waugh, Linda Hutcheon, Robert Sholes, and many others focused on the mentioned issues in their research work. Therefore, this paper considers metatextuality and metafiction in the theoretical perspective tracing the origins of metatextuality and its connections with postmodern literature. The terms ‘metatext’ and ‘metafiction’ appeared as rather close in time. Notably, both of them are based on the discursive practices of the late 20th century. However, the term ‘metatext’ originated in the scholarly practice of structuralism. It is obvious that ‘metatext’ was constructed by analogy with the concept of ‘metalanguage’. Either of them does not exist without the initial text (or language). Metatextual elements are important for analyzing styles, genres, types of expression, discursive functions, and more. On the other hand, the term ‘metafiction’ has an obvious connection with genre studies. Metafiction qualifies as a special kind of literary text that became characteristic of the postmodern era. Such features as self-referentiality of artistic expression, introspection, and self-consciousness became essential for postmodern aesthetics. Metatextuality relates to the narrative theory and metacritiсism, while metafictionality is applicable within the intertextual analysis. Thus, the paper highlights an advance of metadiscourse in the cultural consciousness of the late 20th century.

Scarlett Baron. The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity. Routledge, 2020.

Scarlett Baron. The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity. Routledge, 2020.

Carta a Desiderio Navarro

Preliminary note that introduces the letter that Luis Rogelio Nogueras wrote to Desiderio Navarro in Febrary 1985, based on some reflections on intertextuality and games in his poetry.

Intertextuality in the Second Century. Edited by D. JeffreyBingham and Clayton N.Jefford. Pp. xvi, 252, Leiden, Brill, 2016, €112.00.

Intertextuality in the Second Century. Edited by D. JeffreyBingham and Clayton N.Jefford. Pp. xvi, 252, Leiden, Brill, 2016, €112.00.

So Manga Pananaroon Sa Ranaw: Reflections of Meranaw Culture and Worldview

This study was undertaken to analyze the Meranaw pananaroon and discover, through the signs incorporated in them, what they express and reveal of the Meranaw people’s worldview, culture, and character. Sample pananaroons were classified and described according to context in the culture, that is, situations for which they are designed or meant to be used, based on appropriateness or fittingness and relevance. They were next subjected to semiotic and intertextual analysis, with cultural semiotics as the approach, focusing on how the signs are utilized for meaning-making, and what these reveal of the Meranaws as individuals and as a socio-cultural group. Focal concerns in the study were the Meranaw worldview, culture, and character. The study established that the pananaroon, the Meranaw word for the English proverb, adage, aphorism, and other gnomic sayings or utterances and homespun generalizations about life, are employed not only for rhetoric but purposes such as emphasis on a central message, conveyance of indirection and subtlety to avoid offense, allusion, self-deprecation or show of humility/self-effacement, irony, scorn (kapangilat), overstatement (hyperbole) and understatement. From the analyses of select pananaroon, through the lenses of the natural and cultural signs that conveyed them, the foundational ideals and overarching worldview that Meranaws value regardless of context and situation were also drawn: patience and prudence, avoidance of acting or deciding on impulse; belief in calculated boldness and arduous journeys; finding procrastination or vacillation as a fault; allowance and forgiveness for falling short of one’s expectations; humility; awareness of one’s station, revealing an ingrained and internalized class system; sensitivity, and; an overarching wish for clearness, harmony, order and peace (rinaw) in all things. The depths that the results this study reached not only strengthens semiotic analysis as a viable approach to proverb and linguistic/folklore studies, but also opens up new avenues or paths for fresh inquiry on Meranaw pananaroon, oral tradition, and folklore, and culture in general.

From National Policy to Individual Practice: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Three Levels

Enlightened by critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective and intertextuality analysis, this article puts forward Institutional logic-Cognition-Discourse-Practice Approach as a framework for the study of connection and transformation process involved in multi-level-subjects’ policy discourse, and explains how national policy be implemented across multiple levels. To do this, a case analysis of the agricultural entrepreneurship in Guangdong Province was conducted. Policy discourse from three levels were collected as analysis data. By probing the traces of previous text in subsequent text, this article explains how intertextuality is formed across three levels of subjects.