CONTEXT OF
TEXT
DEVELOPMENT
1 C O N T E X T
2 I N T E R T E X T
3 H Y P E R T E X T
Cultural
Background
Social
Background
CONTEXT Political
Background
Historical
Background
Understanding the
background of the
text
What was the background when the text was made?
Who is the author?
When was it written?
Why was it written?
For whom is the text?
In discovering deeper meaning of a text,
you may consider identifying the
following:
1. The time and period when the
text was written.
In discovering deeper meaning of a text,
you may consider identifying the
following:
2. What circumstances produced
the text?
In discovering deeper meaning of a text,
you may consider identifying the
following:
3. Issues the text tackles or deals
with
Background of
the text
q inter - means used to form words
meaning between and among groups of
people, things or places
q text - the written words ina a book or a
magazine
q Intertextuality is the shaping of a text
meaning by another meaning
q Derived from the Latin “intertexto”,
meaning to intermingle while weaving
q Julia Kristeva posts that there are
relationships among tetxs
q some texts are influenced by other
texts or may have borrowed some
concepts from texts of the past
q it is the development of a text’s
meaning through another text
q it shows the connections among texts
in terms of language, images,
characters, themes, or subjet/topic
1. Allusion
- an expression that calls attention to
something without explicitly
mentioning it
-it is often called a “passig reference”
Example:
“Thank you, my Hercules”
“Thank you, Romeo”
“My Helen of Troy”
1. historical
2. biblical
3. literary
4. cultural
2. Parody
- When one piece of writing uses many
of the same elements of another but
does it in a new and funny way
-may copy the setting, plot, characters,
or other parts of the original work
2. Parody
- it is imitating or mimicking with
humor and commenting
3. Pastiche
- borrows elements from one or more
works and reconfigures them to create
something new.
-reworking of an original work but not
humurous as parody.
3. Pastiche
-a respectful type of borrowing that
gives credit to the original and is not
plagiarism
a. adaptation
-recasting into a new form
b. retro
-means recycling
-it is the most pervasive strategy of
refashioning or rhetorical forms and
adapting to new uses
c. appropriation
-the act of borrowing or stealing over
others meaning to one’s own end.This is
very common in modern and post-modern
art and photography
d. parody
e. pastiche
1. association
2. integration
3. evaluation
