EN 1700 Lecture Notes - Life Imitating Art, Angela Carter, Vampire
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Lecture 20 angela carter march 15. All of her novels and stories are described as intertextual texts. Is the shaping of a text"s meaning by other texts: it can reference to an author"s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader"s referencing of one text in reading another. Concept has become very important in post modernism. Makes sense when we realize that meaning is not transferred directly from writer. Filtered by codes which are imparted to the writer and reader imparted by other to reader. texts. Every text and every reading depends on prior codes. No text is an island dependent on itself. Each text we pick up depends on a vast majority of texts; medias, genres. Most importantly it challenges our deep biased for our uniqueness of authors. Notions of unique authors are challenged by this. All writing is actually rewriting because somewhere someplace another version of the idea is written down somewhere.
