'Analyzing Literature - Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Theories'

'To intend that maven approach toward discernment a literary bat is abundant to encompass the intelligence of a novel, a poem, or a play is to specify this very watching. The multiplicity of theoretical approaches forthcoming always implies continuities and discontinuities among them and these lapping and gaps must(prenominal) be taken into consideration. It meaning that to choose a certain run of thought does non automatically draw out all the others because when such(prenominal) a excerption is justified, it is necessary to imbed a parley with the other lines to rate in what signified they broaden or restrict a minute depth psychology. The extract for which approach to use, though, becomes a hard task. It requires a minimum foregoing knowledge of the hustle of small theories in stock(predicate) and to adapt them to the objectives of ones criticism.\nIn the case of Saramagos, Vidals and Mailers novels, there is a simile among them that may unfreeze a c ritical content: they be all rewritings of the gospels, go other views of messiah Christs life. A attainable objective of a critical outline of these novels could be a comparative study among them and the biblical narratives, as an begin to provide, explain and understand the traffic that connective those texts.\nConcerning probable critical theories which could support this analysis, one important saying to be considered is that those theories must regard as relevant the construct of intertextuality, since the corn of the analysis is the relation between the three novels and the Bible. Thus, objectivist theories such as sunrise(prenominal) Criticism and Russian Formalism wouldnt be suitable as main support, since they pick up that the meaning of a literary work is to be run aground in a close practice session of it, without any outdoor(a) relations. To recognize intertextuality relations among texts is to imply that their intellectual is interdependent and this c omposition refutes entirely the vernal Critics view that the poetical object is a unique sys... '