The Intertextuality Study Of The Black Steed’s Three Different Texts

Intertextuality, as one text theory of the post-modern cultural thoughts, and akeyword in Western literary theory, was first coined by French post-structuralismscholar Julia Kristeva. Roland Barthes is also an intertextuality interpreter andadvocate. Both of them are representatives of general intertextuality, while Vignettes’Disappearance has interpreted it in a narrow sense. The theoretical value ofintertextuality is not in seeking for the common, but rather in retaining the different,which can be studied in two aspects: the transformation and relationship betweentexts.This thesis is divided into five parts.The first part is an introduction to the representativeness of the three diverse textsof The Black Steed in the fields of folk songs, novels and films, and then it considershow do writers draw resources from folklore, and enrich the film-adaptation theoriesof minority literature.Part two, being Chapter One, explores how will writers create anew text by means of inheriting, misreading and referencing traditions. It is arguedthat excellent writers do not evade traditions, but inherit, even converse with them.The third part, i.e. Chapter Two, discusses the ways in which a director couldtransform any literary narration into a film narration, and lyric words into lyric scenesby using film languages. What deemed to be inevitable are the trends of turningliterature into motion pictures, but those successful film adaptations of minorityliterature will maintain the national identity in culture.The fourth part, Chapter Three,enquires into the question that, once the transformation completed, how can readersor viewer make intertextuality associations in terms of titles, structures and imageswhen facing three different synchronic texts. In the final part, by summarizingChapters I and II, it is the concluded that intertextuality originates from nothing butcreation, and the relationship between texts is not an innate property of the text itself,but can only be activated through aesthetic activities.