Intertextuality in Young Adult Literature: A Study of Girl Online by Zoe Sugg

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI:10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.30

O. Nikolova, Y. Kravchenko, Roman Vasylyna

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Abstract

This article explores how intertextuality works in Young Adult literature, a key cultural trend of the 21st century. It focuses on Zoe Sugg’s novel Girl Online, a popular and representative example of this genre among young readers. The authors of the research aim to examine the features of intertextuality in this novel: they identify and describe the references to other texts and interpret the novel in relation to the cultural heritage of the past and the present. Using intertextual and contextual methods of analysis, they conclude that the novel’s potential reader is expected to “recognize” certain texts that are symbolic, “cult” or appealing to young people, and that are used as effective tools for creating a story that follows the parameters of mass culture. This also leads to a hypothesis that some types of texts, related to specific traditions and sources, are more dominant than others in the novel’s intertextuality. The study reveals that the novel Girl Online draws on, firstly, the literature of the past (well-known works of English classics that have a “cult” status); secondly, fairy tales; thirdly, products of contemporary, mostly youth, culture (other Young Adult texts, movies, cartoons, etc.); and finally, established narrative techniques that belong to various genres and are not bound by a specific time or place and that are updated by the author. These intertextual links make the novel successful.

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青年文学中的互文性——苏格《网络女孩》研究

本文探讨了互文性是如何在青年成人文学中发挥作用的，这是21世纪的一个重要文化趋势。它的重点是佐伊·萨格的小说《Girl Online》，这是这类小说在年轻读者中很受欢迎的代表性作品。本研究的作者旨在考察这部小说的互文性特征:他们识别和描述对其他文本的引用，并将小说与过去和现在的文化遗产联系起来解释。通过互文和上下文分析方法，他们得出结论，小说的潜在读者应该“识别”某些具有象征意义的、“邪教”的或对年轻人有吸引力的文本，这些文本被用作创造一个遵循大众文化参数的故事的有效工具。这也导致了一种假设，即某些类型的文本，与特定的传统和来源有关，在小说的互文性中比其他文本更占主导地位。研究表明，小说《网恋女孩》首先借鉴了过去的文学(具有“邪教”地位的著名英语经典作品);第二，童话故事;第三，当代产品，主要是青年文化(其他青年成人文本，电影，漫画等);最后，既定的叙事技巧，属于各种类型，不受特定时间或地点的限制，并由作者更新。这些互文的联系使这部小说获得了成功。

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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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