User:Chakira/Intereffectuality
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Intereffectuality is an outgrowth of Intertextuality which grew up in Metaphorological circles in the early 21st century. It posits that while intertextuality studies texts and textuality, one must also study effects and effectuality. The movement is also characterized by a number of distinctive interests; While scholars of intereffectuality were interested in numerous traditional literary theory subjects, like Keats, John Milton, and Samuel Beckett they also evaluated the intereffectuality prevalent in modern contemporary culture and pop culture, discussing topics as varied as Iron Maiden and South Park. The movement was mostly centralized in the New York City intelligentsia community.
[edit] Precursors
Some scholars point to the role of Ioan P. Culianu in developing intereffectuality. Other scholars give intereffectuality a more structuralist genealogy; tracing it back to the seminal work of Roland Barthes and others.
[edit] Controversy
While practitioners of intereffectuality claimed to use the methodology to open up texts to more varied interpretations (famously, one proponent said that intereffectuality would "help those tired of New Historicism), some critics have said that intereffectuality relies upon the writings of Michel Foucault in its use of power/effects. Others have found affinities in the intereffectuality movement to post-Marxists and the Journal of Critical Aspect called intereffectuality "no less than Adorno in new clothes - a despondent reminder that the post-apocalyptic resolution is unsurmountable."
[edit] References
- Les 1001 nuits et l’imaginaire du XXe siècle / sous la direction de Christiane Chaulet-Achour
- Journal of Critical Aspect, May 2004, V.II E.52
- Reimagining textuality : textual studies in the late age of print / ed. by Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat
- Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres : the trapping effect of the signifier over subject and text / Carmen Teresa Hartman
