WHAT IS INTERTEXTUALITY? | LITERARY THEORY COURSE

What is Intertextuality?

In Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel for children "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," a young girl called Alice follows a white rabbit and falls down a rabbit hole and enters a fantasy world where she encounters many strange anthropomorphic creatures and has a series of surreal experiences.

Hi, this is Mihnea. Welcome to UpLife.

In my book “The Matrix and The Alice Books” I explore aspects of intertextuality in the motion picture “The Matrix” and the books “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass” by Lewis Carroll. This series of lectures on literary theory is inspire by my fascination with the connection between literature and film studies.

Today, the phrase “falling down the rabbit hole” and “follow the white rabbit” have become synonymous with beginning a journey that is strange, problematic, and/or chaotic. It’s a phrase that has been widely used in film, literature, and art.

In this Literary Theory course, I invite you to follow me down the rabbit hole and explore the amazing world of intertextuality.

Why? Because even discussing Lewis Carroll's “white rabbit” in this context – a video lesson delivered through the internet – implies the use of intertextual relations between the Alice books, the words in the books, and the meaning that contemporary culture attributes to them.

This first part of the course is an introduction to the concept of intertextuality in which we will:
- define intertextuality;
- understand what interpretation, reading, and meaning means in literary theory;
- discuss the origins of intertextuality; and
- we will also contrast these concepts within the framework of structuralist and post-structuralist theories

As we do all this, I will briefly introduce the ideas of the main thinkers who theorized what intertextuality is. The five literary theorist we will look at are: Julia Kristeva, Ferdinand de Saussure, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, and Gérard Genette

Let’s now follow the rabbit and dive down the amazing world of intertextuality.

GET THE BOOKS from Amazon:
► “Intertextuality” by Graham Allen https://amzn.to/2Q6Slik
► “Cultural Transactions: Nature, Self, Society” by Paul Hernadi https://amzn.to/2JqVHu3
► “Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners” by Donald D. Palmer https://amzn.to/2JtJuo8
► “Roland Barthes’s The Death of the Author” by Laura Seymour https://amzn.to/2JxHagh
► “Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method” by Gérard Genette https://amzn.to/2SvcwYJ
► "The Matrix and the Alice Books" by Voicu Mihnea Simandan https://amzn.to/2ACqNfw

Mihnea is a Beijing-based Romanian travel vlogger and education entrepreneur with an interest in reading literacy, language learning, and world travel.

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