On Apr 29, 2011, at 3:14 AM, Volker Dehs wrote:
> I may add that the intertextual and autoreferential aspects of Verne's works have been the subject of a very interesting publication of Daniel Compère: Jules Verne écrivain. Geneva: Droz 1991, 194 p. (Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, 294).
> In chapter V (Le ludotexte), Compère distinguishes between références, reprises, parodie, pastiche, autoréférence, autoparodie et autoreprise.
Daniel's book is essential reading for anyone interested in Verne's textual methods. I found it illuminating and invaluable to my research; you will come away from it with a much deeper appreciation for Verne's originality and achievement.
TH
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