[HPforGrownups] Re: Thinking of CS Lewis

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 6638

Christine wrote:

> > Could you tell us what you mean by intertextuality?
> > Susan
>
> There are a lot of references to "other texts" as well as historical
> and mythological characters. The other texts are for example "The
> Odyssey", "The Magician's Nephew", "Manfield Park" and so on, but
> could also be history-books and "stuff like that".

You're either talking about references to other books that show up in the
text, and how the references further the story, OR you're talking about (I
think the term is) hypermessages, hypertexts, which are sort of
meta-stories--as an allegory would have the story per se, but a complete
meta-story as well, illustrated by the basic story. Am I even close?

--Amanda, whose literary analysis classes were sooo very long ago