HUMA 2680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Occult, Secular Humanism, C. S. Lewis
4 Apr 2016
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Author katherine paterson: published october 21st 1977, born in china before her family moved back to the united states, presbyterian (a protestant denomination of christianity), parents missionaries for the southern presbyterian church. Romance vs. realism: romance is said to represent life as we would have it. Picturesque, fantastic, adventurous, or heroic: realism is said to represent life as it really is. Narnia: certain references to c. s lewis" narnia, just like the kids in narnia, both kids in this story become kings and queens. Intertextuality: a term coined by julia kristeva to designate the various relationships that a given text may have with other texts. These intertextual relationships include anagram, allusion, adaptation, translation, parody imitation, and other kinds of transformations. In the literary theories of structuralism and post-structuralism, texts are seen to refer to other texts (or to themselves as texts) rather than to an external reality.
