Exam prep instructions
EXAM PREP BLOG INSTRUCTIONS
Each week I will post 5 terms that have been discussed in our course. You are responsible for writing responses for 2 of them (ie. 2 per week). Write your responses as if you were writing the answers for an exam. Post your responses in the comments section under the appropriate term. Please try to have your responses posted before your tutorial begins on Monday/Tuesday.
If you cannot access the comments section to post your response, you must email me and I will send you an invite to the blog.
Participating in this exercise will account for 30% of your final participation grade. I will be posting 5 terms/week over the next 6 weeks, so by posting an adequate response for 2 terms will earn you 5%/week.
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This exam prep exercise in no way guarantees that all or any of these terms will appear on the final exam. You are responsible for familiarizing yourself will all of the terms relevant to this course.
Intertexuality is the interconnectedness of text; shared ideas, images and themes. Basically, one is trying to find the similarities or differences between two texts. The concept can be stated implicitly or explicitly. For example, one can compare Brave New World with 1984. Some may say 1984 is a dystopia whereas Brave New World may be labeled as a utopia or perhaps both novels are dystopic. It is all about perspective. Both novels are placed in the speculative fiction category but each one have distinct themes that set them apart from each other. Brave New World, is a place where everyone is content with obeying one another and having just a gramme of soma. In 1984, everyone is so scared of Big Brother and the Thought Police that they become submissive to their totalitarian ways. Brave New World highlights a class system more so than 1984. 1984 is more blunt when it describes violence, terror and human suffering. Both of the main characters try so desperately to break free of their surroundings.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the relation between shared literature with common themes and settings. It is the way similar texts, relate, reflect, and differ from one another. They can be referenced from other texts, novels, and/or movies. In "Imaginary Homelands" and "The Cat's Table" share this similar connection in the essence of having an idea of 'home'. Both reflect from a broken/ partial memory of events reconstructing the story. Another very common example is, 1984, and "Brave New World". They are similar in genre of being a sci-fi novel. Set in a dystopian world, functioned through specific government officials (Big Brother, Thought Police). Whereas, in Brave New World power is controlled by science and what they implant on their citizens from birth. Similar, yet different, however same concept of having a higher authority control and maintain the society.
ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the interconnectedness of texts, where texts are connected by shared codes. These connections can be explicit or implicit/deliberate or accidental. Intertextuality lends itself to the notion that 'art imitates art'. For example, as my classmates before me have referenced, we read both "Brave New World" and "1984". Both are dystopian fiction novels, however, the concepts for future worlds are quite different in both books. This connects to the understanding that there are degrees of intertextuality.
ReplyDeleteIntertexuality is defined as the interconnectivity between texts. Intertextuality is a literary device used by authors in works such as poetry, novels, and theatre, to name a few. It creates an interrelationship between texts, which generates a related understanding for readers. References are made to influence the reader and add layers of depth to the text. A prime example is the intertextuality between Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984. Both are dystopian novels that express the idea of a government's view on how a society should function, but the ideas differ in both novels. While Brave New World expresses the idea of freedom and expression of self, 1984 is rigid in it's perspective, creating feelings of fear and terror for citizens. There is intertextuality used in the sense that both author's share ideas even though the expression differs for both.
ReplyDeleteIntertexuality is defined as the interconnectivity between texts. Intertextuality is a literary device used by authors in works such as poetry, novels, and theatre, to name a few. It creates an interrelationship between texts, which generates a related understanding for readers. References are made to influence the reader and add layers of depth to the text. A prime example is the intertextuality between Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984. Both are dystopian novels that express the idea of a government's view on how a society should function, but the ideas differ in both novels. While Brave New World expresses the idea of freedom and expression of self, 1984 is rigid in it's perspective, creating feelings of fear and terror for citizens. There is intertextuality used in the sense that both author's share ideas even though the expression differs for both.
ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is a text drawing something else from another text or the interconnectivity of texts. Writers, readers, and texts all draw things or ideas from other texts. Writers can do this to support an argument, or even give the reader another text to read to help further their knowledge on a certain subject. When readers read a text, a lot of the time they draw similarities from a pervious book and compare it to what they’re reading now. This means that when a person reads they reference and or remember other texts they have read. Intertextuality can be implicit or explicit within a text. Meaning that it can be subtle or directly said in a text. Intertextuality can occur by drawing connections between texts by ideas, examples, or the mention of a text. An example for me of Intertextuality when reading is Brave New World and 1984. When I read Brave New World I was reminded of a book I read that was similar. But then when I read 1984 I referenced back to Brave New World. Both novels are Utopian or Dystopian novels that are somewhat science fiction like, but definitely speculative fiction. Both book explore different paths life could potentially take if life on earth continued a certain way. Interconnectivity between texts helps us readers to remember that no text is entirely new to us. It makes us think of how ideas have stemmed from different places but are reused and attempt to be brought in a different direction to explore.
ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is when you connect one piece of text with another piece of text and their interconnectivity. It centers reading rather than writing and not just strategically. Intertextuality is also when text and readers along with texts and texts have a code of connections – a system of language. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are an example of intertextuality. Both are dystopian fiction novels and express their views on government and the ways in which a society should function. Though the authors had similar views, they still had different depictions of the ways in which the future of life on earth would continue. Furthermore, intertextuality allows us as an audience to be able to comprehend various texts further –considering how each “story” is a version of another.
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