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    Michael Gow's Away

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    (Caravan Park) Away is about reconciliation and the power of healing through love and compassion This play is about the experiences of a dying school boy‚ it is a celebration of life and the power to heal through gaining insight. At the end‚ the characters accept their motives‚ ambitions‚ hopes and fears which determine their actions Characters Imprisoned in a World which their worth as human beings is measured in the costs of their holidays The quest of the characters in Away brings them

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    Michael Gow's "Away".

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    Drama is not a talent for writing‚ but an ability to articulate human relationships." By this‚ Vidal meant that to convey a play properly‚ association between the characters has to be real‚ dynamic action that captures the attention of an audience. Away is a charming play that deals with family‚ relationship‚ life‚ growing up and death. It depicts the final months leading up to the disintegration of the condition of Tom‚ a boy dying from Leukaemia. In the final stages of his life‚ he is desperate

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    Perhaps the most obvious resolution in the play is Tom’s illness. We are left knowing that he has finally accepted his illness and its consequences. Gow finishes the play with Tom reading a passage from King Lear; “while we unburden’d crawl toward death.” I believe that Gow does this purposely to show the growth of Tom throughout the play. This is because Tom also opens the play and again he is quoting a famous Shakespeare play. However this time he is Puck from ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’. This shows

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    Intertextuality

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    on the character of Eve‚ the archetypal woman in Western thought‚ as she appears in the Genesis accounts of creation and in the varied interpretations of her‚ illustrates the many dimensions of this feminist re-envisioning of women ’s place in the Bible and in women ’s understanding of their place before God and the rest of humanity. Perhaps the best way to begin this study of Eve is to look at some of the "canonized mythology" of Eve. Scripture scholar Phyllis Trible explains the difficulty that

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    Intertextuality in the Hours

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    AMERICAN LITERATURE Intertextuality In The Hours Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author‚ but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text‚" she argues‚ "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com‚ Kristeva: Word‚ Dialogue‚ and

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    particular‚ inherently employs a more overt intertextuality than what is most commonly at play in televisual texts‚ because the foundation of this genre is in the humor created by references to other texts‚ genres‚ events‚ or people. This blatant intertextuality also exists in the program because of the integration other program’s creators in the television industry and the program’s adjacent industries‚ primarily‚ the music industry. Thus‚ intertextuality is the basis of the text’s structural categorization

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    of those‚ it is the conflict that everybody experiences within themselves. Conflict will always be experienced between a person and themselves‚ whether it is the struggle of making the right choices or the need to accept change around you. Michael Gow’s play‚ Away‚ explores the struggle of acceptance within an individual and the ability to make the right choice and avoid conflict. 10 things I hate about you directed by Gil Junger‚ shows the conflict between acceptance of the truth and the consequences

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    Sekarwulan/126332047 Foundation of English Literature Text‚ Context and Intertextuality The term text‚ context and intertextuality are closely related. The word text is embedded with word context and intertextuality. The meaning of the term text is any kinds of written words that will be used in a certain context—cultural or social economy context—and the relation of each text to the texts surrounding it called intertextuality. Thus‚ when we read a text‚ we have to think about the interrelatedness’

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    internationally and have received awards ‚ they also add to their achievements four award-winning films for television (www.dv8.co.uk) . In this essay I will discuss the intertextuality that can be seen in Dv8 original film The Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson and how Newson approached the piece . Intertextuality can be defined as “the complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic to the creation or interpretation of the text”(Wall‚ 2007:97). Or

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    Nao’s family members are introduced in her diary‚ where the use of intertextuality reveals the characters of many members. Due to the restrictions in the number of words‚ the characters of the following members Jiko‚ Haruki#1 and Haruki#2 will be described through the use of intertextuality. Jiko Yasutani is Nao’s great grandmother that self proclaims to be a hundred and four years old. Nao’s diary provides the audience with factual information of the many roles she had. She was a nun‚ novelist

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