Analyzing Literature - Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Theories

To intend that one flack toward understanding a literary work is enough to perceive the understanding of a novel, a poem, or a picnic is to limit this very understanding. The numerousness of theoretical approaches available etern entirelyy implies continuities and discontinuities among them and these overlapping and gaps must be taken into consideration. It means that to conduct a certain guide of thought does not automatically exclude all the others because when such(prenominal) a choice is justified, it is unavoidable to establish a confabulation with the other lines to evaluate in what sense they broaden or restrict a searing epitome. The choice for which approach to use, though, becomes a hard task. It requires a nominal previous knowledge of the crop of unfavorable theories available and to suit them to the physical intents of ones criticism.\nIn the case of Saramagos, Vidals and Mailers novels, thither is a similarity among them that may justify a critical s tudy: they are all rewritings of the gospels, offering other views of saviour Christs life. A possible objective of a critical analysis of these novels could be a proportional study between them and the biblical narratives, as an attempt to provide, explain and understand the intercourses that consort those texts.\nConcerning probable critical theories which could incarnate this analysis, one important sight to be considered is that those theories must friendship as relevant the archetype of intertextuality, since the corn of the analysis is the relation between the three novels and the Bible. Thus, objectivist theories such as newly critique and Russian Formalism wouldnt be suitable as primary(prenominal) support, since they postulate that the meaning of a literary work is to be found in a close reading of it, without all external dealings. To recognize intertextuality relations among texts is to imply that their understanding is mutualist and this idea refutes entir ely the New Critics view that the poetic object is a unique sys...