![]() ![]() ![]() The core of the thesis is that after the fall of humanity a thing and its name were not interchangeable anymore. ![]() This thesis is based on a fake person named Henry Dark who should have been in contact with the famous British poet John Milton. The Graphic novel of City of Glass plays on the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign as a way to mirror Stillman senior’s thesis on 16th and 17th century theological interpretations of the new world. As the intertexts stand for a fragmented identity, we shall look at how the intertextual level is represented in the City of Glass the graphic novel. ![]() A loss of identity is reflected through an intertextual level the text is working with by referencing Don Quixote, a 19th century novel by Miguel de Cervantes. This arbitrariness of the linguistic sign and therefore the arbitrariness of meaning in human language suggests that there is also an ambiguity of identity which has always been an important issue in the oeuvre of Paul Auster. The arbitrariness of meaning in human language is exemplified through the intertextual level of Paradise Lost by John Milton. Such as Quinn’s identity is fragmented by the various identities he took on, the whole novel is fragmented by the intrusion of various intertexts. City of Glass consists of a web of intertextual references which are referring to other works of literature. ![]()
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