Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film

Secret Messages and Buried Treasure
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-62586-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 158 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious, the study of this rapport falls into the more restricted category of hypertextuality. What Steven Walker has labeled a cryptic subtext, however, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been deliberately inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore these allusions and the hidden messages therein.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Steven F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Provocative Reinterpretations

2 Myth and Secret Message in Four Linked Texts

3 Proust’s Cryptic Mass as Buried Treasure

4 Cryptic Platonic Subtexts

5 Three Modernist Cryptic Subtexts

6 Behind the Camera

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven F. Walker is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University