Intertextuality in Orfeo (2014) by Richard Powers
Dovidaitė, Gitana |
Šiame bakalauro darbe analizuojamas intertekstualumas Richard‘o Powers‘o romane Orfeo (2014). Richard Powers (1957) yra Amerikiečių rašytojas kuriantis apie mokslą ir modernias technologijas savo romanuose. Richard‘as Powers‘as yra Anglų literatūros profesorius ir buvęs fizikos studentas. Mitas Orpheo ir Eurydice siekia senovės graikų laikus ir gali būti randamas Pubijaus Ovidio Naso metamorfozėse. Darbo analizė remiasi šiomis intertekstualumo teorijomis: Julijos Kristevos Word, Dialog and Novel (1986) ir Desire in Language. A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (1980), Ferdinand’o de Saussure Course in General Linguistics (1959), Mikhail’o Bakhtin’o The Dialogic Imagination Four Essays (1981), Roland’o Barthes’o Image, Music, Text (1977), ir Gerrard’o Genette Literature in the Second degree (1977). Darbe remiamasi Davido Lodge the Art of Fiction (1994), Nasrullaho Mambrolo Intertextuality (2016), Voicu Mihnea Simandan Mihnea What is Intertextuality? Literary course (2011) ir Gerrardo Genette’s Elements of intertextuality (2011). Šis darbas sudarytas iš keturių dalių ir turi du priedus. Pirma dalis pristato darbo tikslus, Richard’o Powerso romaną „Orfeo“ (2014), supažindina su pačiu kūrinio autoriumi ir suteikia informacijos apie „Orfeo“ (2014) ir graikų mitą Orpheo ir Eurydice. Antra darbo dalis pristato mokslininkų teorijas. Antra dalis suskirstyta į keturis poskyrius: intertekstualumo apibūdinimą, aliuzijas, citavimus ir plagiavimą remiantis atliktais tyrimais. Trečioji dalis analizuoja intertekstualumą romane ir mite. Trečioji dalis turi tris poskyrius paruoštus remiantis romanu. Ketvirtoji, paskutinė, dalis pateikia darbo išvadas ir apibendrina pagrindines darbo idėjas bei mintis. Priedas A pristato graikų mito Orpheo ir Eurydice siužeto santrauką. Priede B pateikiama Richard‘o Powers‘o romano Orfeo (2014) santrauka.
The aim of the present BA Thesis discusses the intertextuality between Richard Powers novel Orfeo (2014) and Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice. Richard Powers (1957) is an American novelist that is writing about the modern science and technology in his novels. Richard Powers is a professor of English literature and undergraduate of the physics studies. Myth Orpheus and Eurydice dates back to ancient Greek times and was written by a roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso in one of his metamorphoses. The study is made using the ideas of intertextuality division and theories by Julia Kristeva Word, Dialog and Novel (1986) and Desire in Language. A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (1980), Ferdinand de Saussure Course in General Linguistics (1959), Mikhail Bakhtin The Dialogic Imagination Four Essays (1981), Roland Barthes Image, Music, Text (1977) , and Gerrard Genette Literature in the Second degree (1977). Theoretical information about the term of intertextuality by academic researchers: David Lodge the Art of Fiction (1994), Nasrullah Mambrol Intertextuality (2016), Voicu Mihnea Simandan Mihnea What is Intertextuality? Literary course (2011) and Genette’s Elements of intertextuality (2011). This BA thesis is divided into four sections with two appendixes. Part, one introduces the aim of the research, the novel Orfeo (2014) by Richard Powers and gives some information about author himself, it also gives a short summary of the Orfeo (2014) and the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice. Section two gives information about the theoretical framework of intertextuality presented by previously mentioned scholars. The second part is divided into four sub-sections: definition of intertextuality, allusions, quotations and plagiarism based on the research. Part three is analysing the intertextuality in the novel and myth. Third section is divided into three sub-sections based on the novel. The last, fourth, part is coming up with the conclusions and represents the summary of the main ideas discussed in the paper. Appendix A provides the plot summary of the Greek myth “Orpheus and Eurydice”. Appendix B presents the summary of the novel by Richard Powers Orfeo (2014).