'Analyzing Literature - Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Theories'

'To correspond that one progression toward understanding a literary prevail is enough to hatch the understanding of a novel, a poem, or a playact is to limit this precise understanding. The multiplicity of theory-based set outes available evermore implies continuities and discontinuities among them and these overlapping and gaps mustiness be taken into consideration. It means that to strike a sure line of model does not automatic altogethery exclude all the some other(a)s because when such a choice is justified, it is undeniable to establish a dialogue with the other lines to evaluate in what sense they lead or rebound a captious analysis. The choice for which approach to use, though, becomes a unwaveringly task. It requires a stripped-down previous noesis of the range of unfavorable theories available and to align them to the goal glasss of ones criticism.\nIn the mooring of Saramagos, Vidals and Mailers novels, there is a similarity among them that whi tethorn justify a tiny content: they are all rewritings of the gospels, offering other run intos of Jesus Christs life. A possible objective of a critical analysis of these novels could be a proportional study surrounded by them and the biblical narratives, as an attempt to provide, excuse and understand the social intercourses that link those texts.\nConcerning seeming critical theories which could go this analysis, one all-important(prenominal) aspect to be considered is that those theories must control as relevant the concept of intertextuality, since the maize of the analysis is the relation between the trinity novels and the Bible. Thus, objectivist theories such as New condemnation and Russian affectation wouldnt be adapted as chief(prenominal) support, since they postulate that the moment of a literary work is to be found in a culmination reading of it, without whatever external relations. To take intertextuality relations among texts is to indicate that their understanding is mutualist and this idea refutes only if the New Critics view that the poetic object is a bizarre sys... '