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  2. List of metafictional works - Wikipedia

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    The DC Comics characters Ambush Bug and The Joker are aware that they are in a comic book. Penny Arcade frequently features metafiction, particularly their fantasy setting Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga, which has a detailed wiki devoted to it. The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama is fiction with a metafictional history.

  3. Intertextuality - Wikipedia

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    James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses bears an intertextual relationship to Homer's Odyssey.. Julia Kristeva coined the term "intertextuality" (intertextualité) [13] in an attempt to synthesize Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics: his study of how signs derive their meaning from the structure of a text (Bakhtin's dialogism); his theory suggests a continual dialogue with other works of literature and ...

  4. List of book titles taken from literature - Wikipedia

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    Rigveda Book X To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Robert A. Heinlein: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" To Say Nothing of the Dog: Connie Willis: Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat: To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Philip José Farmer: John Donne, Holy Sonnets VIII The Torment of Others: Val McDermid: T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages: Unweaving the Rainbow ...

  5. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Although Naseeb Shaheen's important study calls attention to three references to the Rheims translation of the New Testament, it overlooks a number of other allusions or correspondences. For example, Matthew 3.2 is translated in the Tyndale, Geneva, Great and Bishops’ translations as “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” but in ...

  6. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes - Wikipedia

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    Cultural impact: Movie quotations that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon. Legacy: Movie quotations that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.

  7. Allusion - Wikipedia

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    Allusion differs from the similar term intertextuality in that it is an intentional effort on the author's part. [8] The success of an allusion depends in part on at least some of its audience "getting" it. Allusions may be made increasingly obscure, until at last they are understood by the author alone, who thereby retreats into a private ...

  8. Postmodernist film - Wikipedia

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    Modernist film came to maturity in the era between WWI and WWII with characteristics such as montage and symbolic imagery, and often took the form of expressionist cinema and surrealist cinema (as seen in the works of Fritz Lang and Luis Buñuel) [5] while postmodernist film – similar to postmodernism as a whole – is a reaction to the modernist works and to their tendencies (such as ...

  9. Allusions to Poe's "The Raven" - Wikipedia

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    The book incorporates raven myths and legends from around the world into the visual interpretation of the story. Holly Black quotes the poem in her 2005 novel Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, alluding to it as the source for the name of the drug called 'Nevermore'. However, this is later contradicted, when one of the characters asserts that ...