Intertextual Pursuits: Literary Mediations in Modern Spanish NarrativeThis book brings together twelve essays that attest to the continuing viability of intertextuality, a widely recognized by-product of a cosmic readjustment in thinking about the nature and boundaries of texts. All the contributors to this collection are well versed in the theoretical implications of intertextuality. Their essays give repeated evidence that intertextuality is itself dynamically intertextual and that it is as endlessly fruitful as its myriad applications. The essays further demonstrate that, whether theoretically in fashion or out of it, whether seen as rhetorical exercises, ideological statements, or philosophical meditations, intertextual pursuits remain the paramount adventure in the literary-critical enterprise. |
Contents
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Blanco White and Juan Goytisolo | 42 |
Ambiguity as Narrative Strategy in Emilia Pardo Bazán | 57 |
Genre and Intertextuality in Su único hijo | 76 |
Mercedes Salisachs Ideal Womanhood and the Middlebrow Novel | 97 |
Postmodern Fiction and the Idea of History in Francoist Spain | 126 |
Intertextuality and the Reappropriation of History in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film | 143 |
The Discursive Field of Tiempo de silencio | 161 |
Nested Intertexts in Galdóss Gerona | 179 |
Galdóss La desheredada | 201 |
The Domestication of Don Juan in Women Novelists of Modernist Spain | 222 |
Intertextualitys Minimal Replicators | 239 |
Contributors | 262 |
Index | 265 |
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Page 29 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 29 - October, 1764, in the close of evening, as I sat musing in the Church of the Zoccolanti or Franciscan fryars, while they were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter on the ruins of the Capitol.
Page 239 - Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catchphrases, clothes, fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
Page 240 - We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 1 2; NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST Nice guys finish last.
Page 53 - And since the mimesis here assumed to be operative is one mode of figuration among others, does the referent determine the figure, or is it the other way round: is the illusion of reference not a correlation of the structure of the figure, that is to say no longer clearly and simply a referent at all but something more akin to a fiction which then, however, in its own turn, acquires a degree of referential productivity?
Page 107 - ... cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Page 180 - Bakhtin: any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another. The notion of intertextuality replaces that of intersubjectivity, and poetic language is read as at least double.
Page 91 - Every text, being itself the intertext of another text, belongs to the intertextual, which must not be confused with a text's origins: to search for the 'sources of and 'influence upon' a work is to satisfy the myth of filiation.
Page 239 - When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell. And this isn't just a way of talking — the meme for, say, 'belief in life after death...
Page 71 - Rather, texts come before us as the always-already-read; we apprehend them through sedimented layers of previous interpretations, or if the text is brandnew — through the sedimented reading habits and categories developed by those inherited interpretive traditions.