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

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 messages therein.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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 messages therein.

Product details

• Authors: Steven F Walker, Steven F. Walker, Walker Steven F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138625860
• ISBN: 978-1-138-62586-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literature: history & criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Literature: history and criticism