1. Intertextuality

2. No text is an isolated island.
What is it?
It is referring to how each text exists in relation to others. Texts are framed by other texts and (as many argue) are constructed more by their intertextuality than by their authors. It is the literal and effective presence in a text of another text.
No text is an isolated island.

3. Two interrelated texts:
We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks (1966)
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.    
The Wild Swans Skip School Andrew Hudgins (2001)
We beat wings. We
fly rings. We
scorn Yeats. We
have mates. We
won't stay. We
fly 'way.

4. Starry Night Vincent van Gogh (1889)
Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) Don McLean Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and grey  Look out on a summer's day  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul 
Shadows on the hills  Sketch the trees and the daffodils  Catch the breeze and the winter chills  In colors on the snowy linen land 
Now I understand  What you tried to say to me  And how you suffered for your sanity  And how you tried to set them free  They would not listen, they did not know how  Perhaps they'll listen now 
Starry, starry night  Flaming flowers that brightly blaze  Swirling clouds and violet haze  Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue 
Colors changing hue  Morning fields of amber grain  Weathered faces lined in pain  Are soothed beneath the artists' loving hand 
For they could not love you  But still your love was true  And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night  You took your life as lovers often do  But I could have told you Vincent  This world was never meant For one as beautiful as you 
Like the strangers that you've met  The ragged men in ragged clothes  The silver thorn and bloody rose  Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow 
Now I think I know  What you tried to say to me  And how you suffered for your sanity  And how you tried to set them free  They would not listen, they're not listening still  Perhaps they never will.
Starry Night Vincent van Gogh (1889)  

5. Some media texts make extremely obvious references to other media texts when encoding their messages…

6. The Simpsons!

7. Why Intertextuality? Enhances the meaning of the central text
Connects readers to the text more intimately
Can increase appeal/fan base

8. Assignment
Go to class page under Frankenstein, then open Myth of Prometheus.
The following rows will complete excerpt #1-2 (total of 5 questions): Lauren, Jeff, and Lauren
These rows will complete excerpt #3 questions (total of 5 questions): Julie, Gabby, Jimmy, Emma and Riley
You have 20 minutes. Be prepared to share out your findings.