University of HeidelbergEnglish Department Summer Term 2013 PS I: British Spy FictionLecturer: Christian Schneider Presenter: Fabian Kunz 10th June 2013

G é r a r d G e n e t t e — P a l i m p s e s t s

Genette's five kinds of transtextuality:✓ intertextuality✓ paratextuality✓ metatextuality✓ hypertextuality✓ architextuality

Intertextualitycan be defined as a text segment present in another text.

✓quoting; example: The Spy wWho Ccame in from the cCold p. 115 "It is not fashionable to quote Stalin but he said once, 'half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a traffic accident is a national tragedy.'"

✓plagiarism; example: Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill was copied from and without giving credit to Strobo by Airen.

✓allusion; example: "Celui-ci ne vaut rien, percez-nous-en d'un autre." Percer in this context means to propose another one. At the same time it mocks the addressee Voiture for being the son of a rich wine merchant.

Paratextualitycan be defined as two text linked together by paratexts (titles, dedications, footnotes,

chapter names, etc.) inobvious text snippets.✓ example: James Joyce's Ulysses used keywords from the Odyssey as a naming scheme for

its chapters.

Metatextualitycan be defined as a text commenting on another one.

✓ example: Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit uses Rameau's Nephew to define the zeitgeist of modernity.

Architextualitycan be defined as a genre classification that is dependent on the expectations of the reader.

✓ example: is The Untouchable a spy novel or a roman à clef ? What did you expect when you read it for a pProseminar called British Spy Fiction?

Hypertextualitycan be defined as the relationship between a text A ("hypotext") and a text B ("hypertext") where text A is the basis and text B an overlay.

✓Transformation; example: Joyce's Ulysses (hypertext) tells the story of Homer's Odyssey (hypotext) but uses a different, a modern setting.

✓ Imitation (complex transformation); example: Virgil's Aeneid (hypertext) uses Homer's Odyssey and Iliad (hypotexts) as guide lines to tell a different story.

BibliographyBooks:

✓Banville, John. The Untouchable. London: Picador, 2009. Ebook.✓Fleming, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Penguin, 2009. Print.✓Genette, Gérard. Palimpseste: Die Literatur auf zweiter Stufe. Trans. Wolfram Bayer and

Dieter Hornig. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993. Print.✓Genette, Gérard. Palimpsestes: La littérature au second degré. Paris: Éditions du Seuil,

1992. Print.✓Genette, Gérard. Palimpsests: Literature in the second degree. Trans. Channa Newman

and Claude Doubinsky. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 1-10; 24-30. Print.

✓Keyes, Ralph. The Quote Verifier: who said what, where, and when. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Print.

✓Le Carré, John. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. London: Penguin, 2011. Ebook.

Internet:✓Martin, Gary. The Phrase Finder, 2013. Web. 20th July 2012 <http://

www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/378900.html >.✓ "Palimpseste. Die Literatur auf zweiter Stufe." Wikipedia: Die freie Enzyklopädie, 2013.

Web. 8th April 2013 <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpseste._Die_Literatur_auf_zweiter_Stufe>.

✓Universitätsbibliothek Hagen. "Rameaus Neffe." FernUniversität in Hagen, 2011. Web. 22th March 2011 <http://www.ub.fernuni-hagen.de/aktuelles/mitteilungen.html?id=357>.

✓Weiß, Marcel. Der Fall "Axolotl Roadkill: Doppelmoral in großem Stil. Netzwertig Zürich, 2010. Web. 9th February 2010 <http://netzwertig.com/2010/02/09/der-fall-axolotl-roadkill-doppelmoral-in-grossem-stil/>.