The Lotus Eater

Intertextuality is the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. Romeo and Juliet, and the Titanic are two examples

Race and gender are revealed in the text by the uses of imagery, characterisation, plot, stylistic techniques, and language.

In chapter five, “When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare” talks about the reappearance of different well known figures in literature. Foster follows this by giving an idea that literature is made based on other literary stories. He states that one of the reasons why story borrowing occurs is because there is only one story and it’s the human experience. Book critics usually refer to the literary works and texts as ‘intertextually’. According to the author, intertextuality is sometimes used to challenge a reader. If the person reading the story can point out the similarities or repetitiveness in the text then the meaning will easily be revealed to them. In conclusion, being able to identify different meaning of literary text and analyze it gives

or genre of the text and purpose (Hill, 2012, p. 87) this would help John in the role of text

Intertextuality is the “ongoing interaction between poems or stories.” The “intertextual dialogue deepens and enriches the reading experience, bringing multiple layers of meaning to the text, some of which readers may not even consciously notice” (34). The book Siddhartha is related to the life of Buddha which is displayed through the plot through the characteristics of the characters, the doctrines, and specific objects that

A story is only as good as the way it is told. The way a writer uses his or her words to say something is just as important as what they don’t say. Charles Baxter, author of plethora of books and university teacher, writes a craft book that goes deeper than the surface of writing and deeper than the words written down. In Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext, he discusses how authors can use the words they do write just as much to express what they don’t write.

The prompt or stimulus is what must be addressed in relation to the texts you have explored.

Authors have different ways to convey the emotions from their work to the reader. Diction and sentence structure is one of the many components authors use to create the tone of the story, also known as the author’s attitude towards the subject. But with the use of figurative language it helps express the meaning of a line without using its literal definition. Homer, the author of The Odyssey, used figurative language to express the tone by using personification and similes to help the reader picture and sense his words.

The author uses many literary devices to bring richness and clarify the text.

Mythological archetypes are the elements of which myths develop. A Scheme according to which a model of myth is collected from an archetypal constructor is universal and is called "monomyth."(reference) But as actors change in different mythological histories, circumstances, then the variety of details of narration became very bright and can be seen instantly, and the similarity of the canvas remains unnoticed. According to Jung, the archetypes evolved in the course of evolution like internal organs. Invisible to the eye, they are always with us, but as "psychic organs." Archetypes are imprinted in culture, art, and religion. Mythological heroes during their journey behind the quest for treasure acquire friends and enemies. These fictional

Juxtaposition Many things in life can be compared and contrasted. Especially in text, elements can be abstract and concrete. Most, if not all, stories share common elements. Some elements include the existence of a setting and plot.

I have used just two examples of intertextuality with reference to names, but there are quite a few. From the example of William Wilson, we can see that by alluding to Poe's work, Auster used intertextuality to make reference to the doppelganger and also possibly to Poe's Detective Dupin stories. By heavily referencing his own name throughout the text Auster used intertextuality in a different way, by not referencing another work but referencing himself he added a completely different aspect to the story allowing for layering on many different

This refers to the contextual (purposive) approach or also can be called text-in-context approach. This approach has been used even before 1994 in certain cases from time to time.

In this part of the essay, there will be discussion on how the commonly used approach of genre is utilize for which purpose of discourse. They are, typography, oral, and iconography approach. All of these approaches of genre usage will be discussed in detail in this section of the essay.

Intertextuality is one of the central ideas in contemporary literary theory. Despite the over utilization and confident use of the term by the theorists and critics, it still remains a term which is not transparent and thus, cannot be invoked in a simple manner. Intertextuality as a term is notably recognized to have been first used by Julia Kristeva in “Word, Dialogue and Novel” (1966). She proposed that the texts were a dynamic site in which relational processes and practices are the focus of analysis instead of static structures and products. Kristeva