Keesey, Ch 5 (Introduction)

Frost on Intertextuality

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/03/intertextuality_nafisi_and_pou.html

Intertextualism: Practice It, Focus It, Adapt It

“Intertextual critics, by contrast, though not necessarily denying that certain symbols may have special potency, feel no need to locate the power of myths or symbols in the unconscious or in the extraliterary. Like the conventions of language, literary conventions are arbitrary, and they must, therefore, be learned. From this perspective, readers who fail to respond to King Lear, say, or to Moby Dick, are no psychologically defective; they simply don’t know how to read well enough” (Keesey 271).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/03/intertextualism_practice_it_fo.html

Class! Can you translate that for me?

examples of intertextual studies in the visual arts world

"...in practice the intertextual study of literature may best be organized along generic lines that keep our attention on conventional elements and that cut across national, temporal, and linguistic boundaries" (Keesey 271).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/03/actors_or_actresses-it_makes_a.html

Be a part of the tribe

Teaching with a critical awareness.

Three Cheers for Intertextuality
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/03/three-cheers-for-intertextuali.html

Back To Eliot

"The mirror may tell us what we are; memory may tell us what we were; but only the imagination can tell us what we might be" (Keesey 268).

"Our understanding of a particular work is an analogical process by which we measure its conformity to the linguistic and literary conventions we know.......Yet, if the work were truely unizue, if it used no conventions we knew, it would be simply unintelligible." (Keesey 266).
And a few other quotes

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/03/taking-the-writ.html