Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film: Secret Messages and Buried Treasure

ISBN-13: 9780367666019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Steven F. Walker

Opis

What Steven Walker labels a cryptic subtext, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore allusions and hidden mes

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Provocative Reinterpretations

2 Myth and Secret Message in Four Linked Texts

3 Proust’s Cryptic Mass as Buried Treasure

4 Cryptic Platonic Subtexts

5 Three Modernist Cryptic Subtexts

6 Behind the Camera

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Steven F. Walker is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University