Questions tagged [intertextuality]
For questions about the relationship between texts or sets of texts.
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Parallels between Michael Malone's novel "Handling Sin" and Cervantes' novel "Don Quixote"
Handling Sin is a hilarious novel by Michael Malone, where the protagonist makes an epic journey across the American South, chasing his father, who has discharged himself from the hospital and taken ...
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Who is the "Sir Oracle" being referenced in "Dracula"?
In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mina Murray is at one point visiting Whitby Abbey. She encounters an old man, who, after he crammles away, she meets again later:
1 August. – I came up here an hour ago with ...
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Considering the similarities between H.G. Wells’ Kipps and Charles Dickens’ Pip can we draw a conclusion regarding parallels between the works?
Considering the example H.G. Wells’ Kipps and Charles Dickens’ Pip there are obvious parallels between these characters and their respective stories. (For example, both are orphans brought up by ...
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Sign wording change in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The sign outside the Potters' ruined house in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reads as follows:
On this spot, on the night of 31 October 1981,
Lily and James Potter lost their lives.
Their son, ...
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What is the relationship between Angelou's poem "Caged bird" and book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
What is the relationship between the poem "Caged bird" and the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? One seems to be an autobiography and the other a poem, but they have overlapping titles ...
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What other Sanderson works are needed to get the references in "The Lost Metal"?
I recently read The Lost Metal, the last book in Mistborn Era 2. While I've caught a few other Sanderson works (specifically: Skyward, The Rithmatist, Stealheart, and sequels within each sub-series), ...
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What play are these lines a reference to?
I am reading about an upcoming play that reimagines a meeting between Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter on the cricket field. The play has references to their works. For instance, they both wait for a ...
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Based on what connections between the two novellas in Coetzee's Dusklands is that book considered a novel?
In the meta question How do we deal with tags in composite works such as the Bible? verbose asked,
J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands comprises two novellas, The Vietnam Project and The Narrative of Jacobus ...
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Is there a connection between Achilles's talking horse in the Iliad and Balaam's talking donkey in the Bible?
At the end of Book XIX of The Iliad we find that Achilles's horse spontaneously begins talking to him:
Automedon, whip in hand, sprang up behind the horses, and after him Achilles mounted in full ...
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Was the title of "O Russet Witch!" a quotation from somewhere?
Fitzgerald's story "'O Russet Witch!'" appears in his collection Tales of the Jazz Age. The quotation marks are part of the story's title; it's the only story in the collection to sport this ...
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Is Casanunda a reference in "Witches Abroad"?
In Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett, the witches meet a dwarf named Casanunda who claims to be the "greatest lover in the world":
''Allo, foxy lady,' said a voice behind her. She looked ...
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What is the significance of Grendel being descended from Cain?
In the tale of Beowulf, the monster Grendel is said to be descended from the biblical character of Cain. This was surprising to me, as I'd thought Beowulf was a pre-Christian story given its setting ...
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Is the Ramayana contained in the Mahabharata?
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Among the principal works and stories in the Mahābhārata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, the story of Savitri and Satyavan, the story of Kacha and Devyani, the story of ...
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What are all the love stories referred to in chapter 2 of Mem and Zin?
I'm reading online Salah Saadalla's translation of the Kurdish classic Mem and Zin. The early chapters are not even part of the main story: two chapters addressed to God, two to the prophet Mohammed, ...
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As good as Brian Jacques or your money back?
Back in the mid-2000s, I read two books of Garry Kilworth's Welkin Weasels series, a set of two trilogies about anthropomorphised mustelids, one trilogy set in a version of medieval England and the ...
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