ABSTRACT
This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Harold Bloom), updating these conversations to include intersectionality specifically, broadly understood to include gendered, racial and other forms of social justice including disability, and the progressive impact of the transmission and transformation of texts. This diverse volume includes discussions of major canonical works such as James Joyce’s Ulysses alongside the recent contemporary literature by authors such as Siri Husvedt and Maggie O’Farrell, as well as theoretical interventions. This volume also engages with how intertextuality can facilitate interdisciplinary and ekphrastic thinking and representation, as the inspiration of music and the visual arts for texts and their transmission is addressed. The choice of intertexts become deliberately political, ethical and artistic signifiers for the authors discussed in this volume, and our contributors are thus enabled to address topics ranging from visual impairment to Shakespearean motherhood to the influence of Jazz culture on writing on the Northern Irish Troubles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
New Metaphors for Progressive Intertextuality
chapter 1|24 pages
Authorship, the “Mezzanine”, and the Intercession of Meaning
part II|44 pages
Progressive Intertextuality and Inclusivity
chapter 3|19 pages
The Blind as Seen Through Blind Eyes
chapter 4|23 pages
Grotesque Mat(t)er
part III|44 pages
Progressive Intertextuality and Interdisciplinarity