The recomposition of Intertextual Motifs in J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2025

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Sena Abuşoğlu

Danışman: Ayşe Zeynep Kıvanç

Özet:

Intertextuality is an extremely important concept, especially in the context of post-modern literary theory. This concept plays a critical role in postmodern theory and provides an important framework for understanding how literary texts relate to each other. Intertextuality refers to the process by which one or more texts interact with each other and one text is reconfigured within another text. Intertextuality is a concept in which all texts are shaped by and benefit from other texts. The phenomenon of intertextuality reveals how a text’s meaning is shaped through its relationships with prior texts and discourses. The reworking of one text within another revitalizes the original text by offering it a fresh perspective. This not only prevents the older text from fading into obscurity but also enables the emergence of new interpretations. Indeed, this phenomenon provides a mode of reading and interpretation that focuses on the creation of new layers of meaning through intertextual exchanges. Authors often, even unknowingly, explore the same theme using different words, thus presenting the text from a new perspective. Intertextual analysis is an approach that examines the relationships a text establishes with other texts through elements such as quotation, allusion, pastiche, parody, montage, and collage. The aim of this thesis is to explore the intertextual relationships in J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic approach, Julia Kristeva’s views on the origins of intertextuality, Roland Barthes’s ideas on the role of the reader, and Gérard Genette’s categories of transtextuality. It seeks to examine the intertextual elements that have been transformed and recontextualized from selected novels, short stories, and other literary genres within Salinger’s work.

 

   Keywords: Intertextuality, Nine stories, short story, postmodern, J.D. Salinger