The Intertextuality and Analysis of Homoerotic Relations and Desires between UbiquitousMixie’s fan fiction “As Long As You Love Me” and its canon The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Intertextuality according to Genette is a “relationship between two texts [...] the actual presence of one text within another” (Allen 98). Genette’s theory of hypertextuality is presented as “literature which are intentionally inter-textual”. Genette uses the terms hypo- and hypertext, which means that the hypotext is considered as the source for the hypertext. In this case, “As Long As You Love Me” is the hypertext and its source is the hypotext; The Hours. Genette also argues that “the meaning of hypertextual works are depended on the reader’s knowledge [...] imitates …show more content…
UbiquitousMixie gives the reader an alternative narration to why Kitty came over, it is more open and explanatory than it is in The Hours. In other words, it feels like UbiquitousMixie is “offering a voice for marginalized groups” (Thomas 7). The group could be the homosexual readers of fan fiction, and this fan fiction is a way to humanize it, Kitty and Mrs Brown’s feelings for each other. Both versions are written in modern time, aside from their hypotexts which are different. The Hours has an intertextual relation with Mrs Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf, which is written in the early 20th-century, when homosexuality was not accepted nor seen as something you would reveal. Cunningham does move a bit further than Woolf, but still presents homosexuality as something taboo. UbiquitousMixie, however, presents the theme as love between two people, nevertheless still something done in the shadows and not revealed to society. This could also be seen as an example of Genette’s study of hypertextuality and what he intends when he talks about a story which has been rewritten in a “rigorously and literally identical way” but the “history had been invested in new complexity and depth and with an entirely different meaning” (Allen 107). These texts also refer to Genette’s study in another dimension which he names ‘transmotivization’, which suggest that “the motivation …show more content…
The complexity and depth in the fan fiction is that the homoerotic relation and desire between the women are more obvious and clearly revealed. “They know each other intimately, in the ways friends and lovers know each other, [...]” (UbiquitousMixie). Comparing this to Cunningham, who has described the
In The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin gives a very inside look at her feelings about marriage, female independence, and the human will. The first description that Chopin gives of Louise (the main character of the story) is her heart trouble. The way that it is suggested, gives the reader reason to believe that the ailment may not only be physical but also mental. Louise's sister, Josephine and Richards treat Louise with great care as though she is fragile. They are afraid that breaking the news of her husband's death to her may be harmful to her condition. When Louise hears the news of her husband's death, Chopin tells us that she "wept with wild abandonment." This apparently was not the expected response. This is known, because Chopin tells the reader that many women would have received the message and been so paralyzed by it that they would not have been able to show emotion. Therefore, it is assumed that Louise is a rather passionate person.
In How to Read Literature like a Professor one of the new literary skills I learned was intertextuality. Intertextuality is a connection between different literary sources, such as “the ongoing interactions between poems and stories” (Foster 29). Similar to intertextuality, the
A vivid and 'realistic' subjective experience of TV dramatic fiction is almost axiomatic of viewer enjoyment. To feel a personal engagement with the depicted events, to experience a sense of the fictional space as subjectively real and to become drawn into that space are arguably defining features of enjoyable television viewing, as they are of film and of literature. In this paper, I will argue that certain forms of intertextuality play a key role in producing this experience. In cult TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS), these forms of intertextuality are used in abundance, and BtVS is therefore an excellent vehicle for exploring their psychological impact.
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. ( This description of the scenery is very happy, usually not how one sees the world after hearing devastating news of her husbands death.)
Although Woolf, Brown, Vaughan are women that are struggling with their own internal issues of restlessness in the place of where she lives, contemplating suicide, unhappiness in a marriage, living with mental illnes, and feelings of failure. Yet, each of these women had secret sexual feelings for other women.( Woolf for sister Vanessa, Brown for neighbor Kitty, and Vaughan for Sally).
In the gothic novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, the author hides motifs within the story.The novel contains two major love stories;The wild love of Catherine, and Heathcliff juxtaposing the serene love of Cathy,and Hareton. Catherine’s and Heathcliff's love is the center of Emily Bronte’s novel ,which readers still to this day seem to remember.The characters passion, and obsession for each other seems to not have been enough ,since their love didn't get to thrive. Hareton and Cathy’s love is what got to develop. Hareton’s and Cathy’s love got to workout ,because both characters contained a characteristic that both characters from the first generation lacked: The ability to change .Bronte employs literary devices such as antithesis of ideas, and the motif of repetition to reveal the destructiveness of wild love versus a domestic love.
For women, the 19th century was a time of inequality, oppression, and inferiority to their male counterparts. A woman's social standing depended solely on her marital status. For these reasons many women were forced to lead a life of solitude and emotional inadequacy, often causing depression. In Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour," setting plays a significant role in illustrating the bittersweet triumph of Mrs. Mallard's escape from oppression at the ironic cost of her life.
At the start of the novel, Eliza Haywood places her protagonist in a very interesting, unique position, with regards to society of the time. The nameless main character is first illustrated in a playhouse, observing the interactions of the strangers around her. She notices a prostitute, surrounded by a swarm of men. “She could not help testifying her contempt of men who...threw away their time in such a manner, to some Ladies...the greater was her wonder, that men, some of whom she knew were accounted to have wit, should have tastes for very depraved” (257-258.) “Fantomina”, as she later comes to be called, oversees all of this. Haywood seems to put her above this crowd of men and prostitutes, while she observes and makes judgments on the nature of their behaviors. She expresses that she is disgusted by the mindlessness of the men in this situation. One might argue that this depicts a reversal of gender roles. Typically, men would look at women in this way, and the male character wo...
To begin my analysis on the queer narrative in The Hours, we must fist discover what makes a queer narrative. Marilyn Farwell discusses what makes a lesbian narrative in her book Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives:
The aspirations and expectations of freedom can lead to both overwhelming revelations and melancholy destruction. In Kate Chopin’s “ The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard is stricken with the news of her husband’s “death” and soon lead to new found glory of her freedom and then complete catastrophe in the death of herself. Chopin’s use of irony and the fluctuation in tone present the idea that freedom can be given or taken away without question and can kill without warning. After learning of her husband’s death in a railroad disaster, Mrs. Mallard sinks into a deep state of grief, as one would be expected to do upon receiving such news.
Analysis of “The Story of an Hour”. In her story “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin (1894) uses imagery and descriptive detail to contrast the rich possibilities for which Mrs. Mallard yearns, given the drab reality of her everyday life. Chopin utilizes explicit words to provide the reader with a background on Mrs. Mallard’s position. Chopin uses “She wept at once,” to describe Mrs. Mallard’s emotional reaction once she was told her husband had been “Killed.”
For Genette, the metaphorical contour of literary space is expressed in three senses of spatiality: “spatiality of language”, “spatiality of text”, and “semantic space”. The first sense shows that “each element is qualified by the place which it occupies in a total picture and by the vertical and horizontal relations which it maintains with the related and adjoining elements” (qtd in Kestner 1978: 113). The second sense of spatiality “does not resides only in horizontal relationships of proximity and succession, but also in those relationships called vertical, or transverse, of those effects of expectation, recollection, response, symmetry, perspective” ( qtd in Kestner 1978: 113). The third sense entails that each word takes on literary and figurative meanings, creating in this way “the semantic space between the apparent signified and the real signified abolishing the linearity of discourse” (qtd in Ubersfeld 1999: 99). Therefore, the polysemic multiplicity of the metaphorical contour of space in Genette can establish the tropes of parody and intertextuality as spatial devices. In this respect, Genette defines intertextuality as "a relationship of co-presence between two texts or among several texts," as in quotations, allusion, or plagiarism (Genette 1997: 5; Emphasis added). In brief, Frank and Genette deny any sense of referentiality between fiction and reality. For them, the text becomes a hermetic autonomous entity purged of any extra-textual reference. Pavel calls this “textolatry,” (Pavel 1986: 9) which has its origins in the Saussurian semiotic model advocating the self-referentiality of language. This “textolatry” is practiced by the structuralists and founded in principle by Derrida for whom “there is nothing outside the text” (Derrida 1974:
Key Elements:The story of an hour · Plot: Standard plot. A woman who receive the notice of her husband's death, and when she begins to felt freedom her husband appear again and she can't accept it and fall died. · Characterization: Few characters a. Mrs. Mallard or Louise: Mallard's wife. Was afflicted with hearth trouble.
Clarissa's relationships with other females in Mrs. Dalloway offer great insight into her personality. Additionally, Woolf's decision to focus at length on Sally Seton, Millicent Bruton, Ellie Henderson, and Doris Kilman allows the reader to see how women relate to one another in extremely different ways: sometimes drawing upon one another for things they cannot get from men; other times, turning on one another out of jealousy and insecurity. Although Mrs. Dalloway is far from the most healthy or positive literary portrayal of women, Woolf presents an excellent exploration of female relationships.
Coming to the end of this class I have learned a lot about what it takes to make a piece of literature leave you feeling a certain way. A lot goes into setting up a atmosphere in a story because you are not really seeing it in front of your face so you must imagine it. The author wants you to imagine a certain scene and feel a certain way through their words and descriptions. An important component to making a reader understand the atmosphere and visualize the scene is by the setting. Setting is where a specific event is taking place. Without setting it would be hard for a reader to not only visualize but to even understand the theme, tone and the atmosphere. Throughout this semester we learned this from genres such as short story, poems and