A couple of days ago, I finished reading James Porter's "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community," which was first published by the Rhetoric Review (Vol. 5.1, Fall 1986) and republished in Composition in Four Keys: Inquiries into the Field. (Eds. Mark Wiley, Barbara Gleason, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1995). The article's main claim about the nature of intertextuality, which is a term and concept coined by Kristeva (during the late 1960s) and its pedagogical implications, have me thinking a lot about the nature and function of autobiographical writing. The relationship between intertextuality and memory is something that I want to explore further. It's also making me think about the way in which the film Memento is presented to an audience. It's also making me think about fragmentation. Lots of thinking right now.
Here is Porter's online bio and CV which includes other publications that will help illuminate the nature of his thought in order to prevent us from judging Porter based on this one article which, alone, is enough to strike a nerve among those that continue to insist on a romantic view of writers, as well as upsetting traditional historians. His grounds for the claim about the writing of the Declaration of Independence no doubt should raise lots of eyebrows! Check it out for yourselves!
Also, check out Dr. Porter's excellent online webpage for his "Rhetoric Theory and History" course. Amazing!
Hasta la proxima
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