Thinking of CS Lewis

[Christine]

No: HPFGUIDX 6642

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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


The references to other books thing was right on the mark