The Translation of Allusions in Political Discourse:An Intertextuality Perspective

drawn from ancient classics are the treasures of traditional Chinese culture.The allusions used in Xi Jinping:The Governance of China illustrate a distinctive feature of political discourse,and the publication of its English version provides a valuable opportunity for the study of allusions in translated political discourse.With the English translations of 241 allusions collected from two volumes of the book,we classified these allusions into three categories of history,culture,and literature based on their original sources.Then we analyzed the strategies used in translating the allusions,and provided typical examples to illustrate the use of such translation strategies for each category.Finally,we tried to account for the use of these strategies in light of the intertextuality theory.

A Comparative Study on Intertextuality of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper

Intertextuality theory is one of extremely important critical methods in a host of western literary theories and provides a new perspective for numerous research scholars and common readers to comprehend and elaborate literature and literary works.This thesis uses multiple and comprehensive ways mainly based on the theory of intertextuality.Theory of symbolism and the method of close reading are also used to explored the internal connection of two short stories:The Tell-Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper.The author attempts to build blocks to application practice of the intertextuality theory in specific works,and elaborate the value and significance of intertextuality comprehension from two aspects including literary reading and literary inheritance.

Intertextuality in“The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”

T.S.Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry.His early poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock reveals the disappointment,loss,confusion and lack of faith that prevailed in Western society after the World WarⅠ.In this paper,the text of Love Song will be assessed from the perspective of intertextuality through the connection of the fantasy world and the disconnection of the real world.

“There is Always The Other Side”: Deconstruction of English Identity and Masculinity——Intertextuality between Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre

Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is the classic revisionary novella of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. It rewrites the tragic story of Mr. Rochester's voiceless and lunatic ex-wife, Berthe Mason. This paper turns to the intertextual relationship between the two texts and argues that the subversive rewriting of Wide Sargasso Sea destabilizes and deconstructs Mr. Rochester's English identity and masculinity, which are manifestly presented in the pre-text. It therefore renders the young Mr. Rochester problematic and insufficient, reveals"the other side"of the story and articulately tells the truth about who is really the mad one.

The Translator's Role from the Perspective of Intertextuality

The translator's role is analyzed in this article from the perspective of intertextuality.He helps the dialogue go among the SL author,the TL reader and intertexts.His dual role,as a SL reader and a TL writer,is both active and passive.

Juxtaposing the Road Taken and Not Taken: An Intertextual Study on Two of Robert Frost’s Poems

By juxtaposing two of Robert Frost's poems—"The Road Not Taken"and"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"and using stylistic analysis method,this essay tries to make a comparative study on the poems from the perspective of intertextuality,so as to find out a trajectory of Robert Frost's meditations on life and the consistency and connectivity in the crafts and style of his poems,and thus acquire a deeper and multi-angle interpretation on the poems.

Intertextuality Revisited:Reflections on Subject in Process,Textual Analysis and Reading/Writing Behavior in Cyberspace

Often regarded as one crucial concept in the current of poststructrualistic thought,intertextuality is influential with regard to its application in discursive perspective and literary criticism.This paper argues that the notion should also be understood in the theoretical backdrop of how the concept of subject is constructed in the 1960s.Two critics are specifically mentioned in the discussion:Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic understanding of the subject in process that stresses the transpositions of signs in both textual and contextual meanings complicates the once delimited register of textuality,while Roland Barthes,with his claim of the demise of the author,appeals for a reevaluation of the conventional grasp of the idea of the writer and the reader,and their relations with the text.This paper will conclude with one of the most significant derivations of intertextuality—hypertextuality.Relevant to how modern subjects in the era of digitalization read and write,this latter concept materializes,in cyberspace,the documents of printed media,and substantially demonstrates the liquification of information on the Internet.

Intertextuality in The Sound and the Fury

This paper analysed The Sound and the Fury with the theory of intertextuality, with the aim of going back tointersubjectivity, as promoted by Mikhail Bakhtin. Drawing insight from Susan Sontag’s opinion on“interpretation”, the author highlights the importance of openness and indeterminacy, as well as the significance ofthe “form”. The author argues that Faulkner found his own voice in the dialogue with previous writers and invitedreaders to interact with the texts as well.

Instances of Intertextuality in Translating Brand Names into Chinese

Many international brands have a phenomenal Chinese name which,paradoxically,comes from a rather prosaic name.The reason for this may lie in the fact that they need an outstanding translation of their names in order to be successful in international marketing.Hence the translation of brand names is an important part of the advertisement.And a good translation is expected to bridge the differences of cultures,languages,spending habits,thinking patterns,etc.

Intertextuality Liberates Readers—Reading Invisible Man in the Light of Intertextuality

Ralph Ellison' s Invisible Man describes an unknown name Black man' s growth.It also penetrates African American' s history of struggling for survival.In the perspective of intertextuality,this paper analyzes the allusions of the historical figures and contexts;it explains the relation between this novel and other texts;it helps to clarify the author' s attitude after comparing Blacks' survival strategies.The paper argues that intertextualiy,as an important critical method,liberates readers.

Discovering True Identity—Interpretation of Fences Through Broad-Sensed Intertextuality

As the third play in August Wilson’s ten-play series,Fences marks a milestone for Wilson in the commercial arena and unquestionably affirms his mastery of the art of play-writing.Under the theoretical framework of Julia Kristeva’s broad-sensed intertextuality,this paper explores the intertextual features of Fences to reveal that to survive in a hostile white-dominated environment where the idea of melting pot was advocated and racial discrimination remained widespread in 1950s,African Americans must discover the value of their true self.

Intertextuality Based on Image Memory and Association in Shrek

This paper offers an analysis of the intertextuality based on image memory and association in Shrek.The author summarizes the significance and value of this analysis,finds out the mutual benefit of intertextuality and image memory and association,and can apply this mutual benefit in various markets.

Analyzing Brexit Speeches of the UK Prime Ministers: an Intertextuality Approach

Brexit has a profound effect on the UK,the EU,even the whole world.The reference of Xin Bin’s specific intertextuality framework is used as a proper approach to analyzing Brexit speeches delivered by David Cameron,Theresa May,and Boris Johnson-the predecessors and the present UK Prime Minister.Through analyzing,it is identified that the Prime Ministers share a similar attitude to the value proposition of Brexit,but have both similarities and differences in their thoughts of Brexit policies and future directions after Brexit.The research takes an integral analysis of Brexit,and hence provides a new perspective.

The intertextuality of argumentation:a semiotic approach to academic writing in higher education

The importance of argumentation in academic writing,while historically recognised,has arguably lost prominence alongside the rapid expansion of higher education since the early 1990s in the UK.This has been exacerbated by an increasingly prevalent technological intervention in teaching and learning processes.With this as a background,this article presents a semiotic analysis of student dissertation extracts to illustrate the role of intertextuality in governing interpretative,evaluative,and concluding propositions in argumentation.Each proposition is perceived as indexed to syntactical compositionality by which a previous proposition elicits a present one that awaits a future one,thus forming a line of argument.The analysis teases out what is at stake concerning the interdependence of signifying codes in textual relations and functions.This brings into view a network of sign actions that lends itself to instances of signification in mediating and coordinating propositions in argumentation.The article concludes with reflection on the medium of English as a lingua franca for studies in higher education,highlighting a semiotic understanding of the intertextuality of argumentation in academic writing.

The Generative Mechanism of Online Narratives and the Intertextuality of Their Group Communication

The complexity of online narratives and their important influence on events,attitudes,and emotions in society make visible certain limitations in the explication of such narratives found in traditional narrative theory.Their generative mechanism provides the logical starting point for understanding online communication.Event correlatives,text assemblage and specific texts,as the organic structure of online narratives,shape the intertextual existence and dynamic accumulation of the online text.A universal multidirectional co-construction forms around event correlatives and between specific texts and the pre-text,post-text and synchronous text within the text assemblage,while the textual object,the communicating subject and the online group communication context together build up the interpretive system of online narrative meanings.The generative mechanism and vitality of online narratives not only provide guarantees for the active nature of online communication,but also become a huge variable in social development,profoundly influencing social communication and even our way of thinking.

On the Translation of Intertextully-constructed Texts A Case Study——Nian Nu Jiao.Memories of the Past at Red Cliff

The introduction of intertextuality to translation studies has provided a new perspective to approach the translation procedure as well as the translators’ role.This essay ventures to compare the four English versions of Su Shi’ s Nian Nu Jiao:Memories of the Past at Red Cliff in terms of different solutions to intertextual associations and makes tentative assumptions about the translators’ role in the translation procedure of intertextuality-loaded texts.

Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist as a Postmodern Text

Literature has witnessed the appearance of many movements and approaches throughout the history.After World War II,particularly in the 1960s,postmodernism has come to surface and as an up-to-date movement,many eminent critics and cultural historians have turned their concerns and attention to it.This study examines the concept of postmodernism and it explores its main characteristics that appear in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist(1986).

Castro’s Assassination Plot a Fiasco: A Study With Special Reference to Don DeLillo’s Libra

DeLillo's treatments of Lee Harvey Oswald in Libra take place this rhetoric of image, and the place of image within historical, imagistic, and textual context. DeLillo's fiction is very much concerned with the ideological subtext of history that has exploited the resources of intertextuality. It has a long finding of meta-fiction to reveal there is no history without a full-blown meta-history to make plain Hayden White's contention. The general field of intertextuality was presented by Gerard Genette. Miami was a city of open wounds of explosive politics and feelings. Of all the cities, attempt made the conspiracy on the Cuban head. This city was very inflammable. Cuban heat and light were made him determined to keep the plan a secret from anti-Castro leaders. Four months earlier Kennedy had been accepted the brigade flag from survivors of the invasion, and many just have ransomed from Cuban prisons.

A Corpus-Based Contrastive Critical Genre Analysis of Universities’Introductory Discourses

Educational discourses,or to be more specific,universities’introductory discourses have not been studied from the contrastive perspective using critical genre analysis theories.This study uses Fairclough’s framework of discourse analysis to take a corpus-based contrastive study between the Chinese and global universities’introductory discourses from three aspects.Firstly,the textual dimension will be explored using the corpus-based approach.Secondly,it studies from the discursive dimension from intertextuality and interdiscursivity.Finally,the social cultural perspective study will be given about the corresponding social cultural interpretation on the differences between Chinese and global universities’introduction discourses.

Narrator,Anti-hero and Tragedy:A Comparative Reading of American Pastoral and Lord Jim

American novelist Philip Roth demonstrated admiration for and intimacy with Joseph Conrad’s works.Testimonies abound of Roth’s direct and oblique references to Conrad’s novels.A close and comparative reading of Roth’s American Pastoral and Conrad’s Lord Jim reveals the intertextuality between the two novels in three aspects:narrative techniques,characterization and the protagonist’s tragedy.By incorporating Conrad’s Lord Jim into the fabric of American Pastoral through intertextuality,Roth rewrites Jim’s story in a new historical and social context,throwing new light on the canonical work and revealing the dilemma and tragedy of American Jewish immigrants in their pursuit of American Dream.