If you’re over the age of ten or so, you probably got chills when you saw the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, even if you didn’t end up liking the movie. That feeling is due to a ...

“Intertextuality,” a term used in literary criticism, has outlived its usefulness, says William Irwin, an associate professor of philosophy at King’s College, in Pennsylvania. It is, he says, “at best ...

JULIA Kristeva, the feminist and critic, is usually credited with coining the term intertextuality. It basically means that the meaning of a text does not lie in the text, but it is produced by the ...

Nigerian Arabic poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries deliberately intertexts with and alludes to classical Arabic poetry, the foundational texts of Islam, the religious poetry of the first century of ...

While Pixar tends to get all the love, flowers, and swooning for their impact on the cg animated feature, Sam Summers suggests that “on a narrative and tonal level” the influence of Dreamworks ...

Renaissance Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue: The Rhetoric of Complaint: Ovid's "Heroides" in the Renaissance and Restoration (JUNE 2008), pp. 307-323 (17 pages) Recent criticism of Ovid's ...

From the mid-1960s in Japan, parody began to be more widely used as a means of expression and entertainment, becoming particularly popular in magazines and print publications. By the '70s, the term ...