To begin thinking about writing the third blog, which should be your first attempt to think and write about intertextuality, you need to have read through the methodology section on the website having to do with intertextuality:
http://howwritersread.weebly.com/intertextual-codes.html
Essentially, there are possible connotations in the text that stretch out from the text (and its most obvious meanings) into the symbolic and cultural dimensions of our existence. What we did in class is begin to identify the symbolic oppositions within a given text (which comprises its conflicts) as a way to reveal the cultural codes that are connoted by the text, and which we see (what I am calling “networks of controlling values”).
Consider: we cannot even “see” a text (or anything, for that matter), except in the light the genre we are in casts for us. Whichever genre(s) we are in reveals the world to us in all its meaningful relationships and connections. Genres are themselves structured by the controlling values that inform the “culture” (the collection of genres) we are so embedded within, we cannot even see that we are in it, like water to a fish.
Reading for intertextuality then (and for genre and form, and for structure, etc.) provides us access to seeing the “eyes” we see and understand the world with.
With what eyes have you been reading Demian?
http://howwritersread.weebly.com/intertextual-codes.html
Essentially, there are possible connotations in the text that stretch out from the text (and its most obvious meanings) into the symbolic and cultural dimensions of our existence. What we did in class is begin to identify the symbolic oppositions within a given text (which comprises its conflicts) as a way to reveal the cultural codes that are connoted by the text, and which we see (what I am calling “networks of controlling values”).
Consider: we cannot even “see” a text (or anything, for that matter), except in the light the genre we are in casts for us. Whichever genre(s) we are in reveals the world to us in all its meaningful relationships and connections. Genres are themselves structured by the controlling values that inform the “culture” (the collection of genres) we are so embedded within, we cannot even see that we are in it, like water to a fish.
Reading for intertextuality then (and for genre and form, and for structure, etc.) provides us access to seeing the “eyes” we see and understand the world with.
With what eyes have you been reading Demian?