Colum McCann}}}s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another [Hardcover]

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.

In its dialogue with other texts, it absorbs and transforms them, and lets itself transformed by them. The multiple and complex relations that exist between them are approached in both synchronic and diachronic terms. 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.
Parodic Transgression in the First Short Stories
A Version of an Irish Myth: ???Cathal???s Lake???
The Intertext or the Reflection of Dislocated Ireland: Fishing the Sloe-Black River and Everything in this Country Must
The Influences of Fathers in Songdogs
Prophets of Israel in Manhattan Tunnels: a Biblically-Informed Reading of This Side of Brightness
Dancer and Readers: Framed and Framing Books
Zoli: a Mimetic and Dialogic Novel in Memory of the Oppressed
The Recreation of Voices in Let the Great World Spin
The Paratext: Authorities in Crisis
The Text: ???as if anticipating the fall???
Intertextuality and Intentionality in TransAtlantic
Mirrors and Collages in Thirteen Ways of Looking