In the penultimate episode of season one of Star Wars English Class, Julia overcomes her fear of French literary theory to teach Fern about intertextuality. We explore the The Ferdinand de Saussure to Disney Star Wars Canon Pipeline, analyze some of George Lucas's cultural and historical "references," Fern goes on a Quick Adventure Zone Tangent™️, and we discover two ultimate truths: language is a prison and there is no Star Wars.
On the Syllabus
- Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, dir. J.J. Abrams
- Star Wars: The High Republic, A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland
- Ian Buchanan. "intertextuality." A Dictionary of Critical Theory: Oxford University Press, Oxford Reference.
- Daniel Chandler. "Semiotics for Beginners: Intertextuality," http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/sem09.html
- Gerard Genette. Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, Channa Newman and Claude Doubinsky (trans.), University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE and London.
- William Irwin. "Against Intertextuality." Philosophy and Literature, vol. 28 no. 2, 2004, p. 227-242.
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