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This article looks at connections and parallels between Machiavelli’s depiction of a state leader in his work The Prince and Pratchett’s portrayal of a character ruling a city state in his fantasy novels. To accomplish this, we analyzed the character of Machiavelli and Pratchett’s leaders and looked for similarities and differences in their statecraft. This paper will also look for intertextual connections as well as other Renaissance influence that can be traced in the British fantasy. One of Terry Pratchett’s ch...

This paper focuses on representation of iconographic elements in literary writings in the context of Italian modernity, by addressing important and innovative theoretical and critical aspects from a multidisciplinary perspective, such as redefinitions of poetic boundaries and principles on which they reside. It examines how pictorial imagery and understandings can permeate one’s own literary expression constituting its integral and substantial part, while the novelty of the paper consists in the fact that it studi...

Intertextual cultural competence has long been considered to be of utmost importance to interpreters and translators. Within the poststructuralist framework, every text contains references, implicit or explicit, to other texts. These references are known as intertextual elements or vertical context elements. The accuracy of translation/interpretation rests entirely on the interpreter’s / translator’s ability to identify the intertextual element and its function. Thus, a study of intertextuality is of high practica...

The idea of creating a story or a short novel, in which the hero-artist would have appeared as the modern Faust, occupied the mind of T. Mann at the beginning of his literary career. The realization of this bold plan was postponed for almost half a century, but the novel “Doctor Faustus” (1947) with all its genre ambiguity is primarily Kunstlerroman, revealing three main typological signs of the works of this kind: its plot-composition center is the life story of the hero-artist, the novel contains a lot of reason...

The present study focuses on the analysis of the types of intertextual techniques as used in printed advertisements. By means of the analytical, the discourse analytical and the descriptive research methods, the printed advertisements featuring the use of intertextuality have been selected and analysed as to the stylistic patterns used to create intertextuality. Intertextuality in printed advertisements is used to attract larger and / or specific audiences, to promote specific features or advantages of a particula...