THEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eucatastrophe, Daniel Boyarin, Intertextuality
Document Summary
Defined: the shaping of a text"s meaning by other texts. Texts are understood to be made up of a mosaic of conscious and unconscious citation of earlier discourse (daniel boyarin) Every text exists in relation to other texts. Some say that texts owe more to other texts than to their own maker. Horizontal axis: connects the author and reader of a text. Vertical axis: connects the text to other texts. Formal frames: a television program, for instance, may be part of a series and part of a genre (such as soap or sitcom). Our understanding of any individual text relates to such framings. Some texts allude directly to each other- as in remakes" of films, references to the media in the animated cartoon the simpsons, etc. Our concept of the devil (red, pitchfork/trident, horns) comes more from. Greek/roman mythology, john milton"s paradise lost and dante"s inferno rather than from the bible. Alteration: the alteration of sources (how noticeable)
