Colum McCann's Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another

By Bertrand Cardin

The intertext is the effective presence of a text in another one. This relation of co-presence between texts is the subject of the present essay. Colum McCann's work is studied here as a mosaic of references to and quotations from other texts. Various modes of intertextuality - influence, intentionality, authority - are analyzed here and applied to McCann's complete work. His novels and short stories denote a transposition of texts taken from the Bible or Irish mythology, but also Anglo-Saxon novels, plays or poems. Through McCann's work, the present study highlights the articulation and interdependence of literary texts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782052240
• ISBN13: 9781782052241
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"