The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between intertextuality and metafictive devices of children's picture books. For this purpose the three major research questions are selected as follows.
Question 1. What is the feature of t...
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between intertextuality and metafictive devices of children's picture books. For this purpose the three major research questions are selected as follows.
Question 1. What is the feature of the intertextuality in children's picture books?
Question 2. What is the feature of the metafictive devices in children's picture books?
Question 3. How is the intertextuality represented through the metafictive devices in children's picture books?
To prove those subjects, I analyzed the way metafictive devices are presented in the intertextuality, covering 4 selected picture books. All of the subjects 1, 2, 3, are composed of literature researches. The mtertextuality of the selected picture books was analyzed in the context of transtextuality, which was presented in the study by Harris and Mckenzie(2005). The metafictive devices was analyzed on the basis of 17 metafictive devices from the study of Panta1eo(2005). In the picture books, metafictive devices were actually used, so I focused on how the intertextuality is presented.
The summery of the research result is as following;
First, the intertextuality in children's picture books is represented as a form of familiar characters in film, TV soap opera, or fairy tales. Other factors around text, such as book covers, book wings and end papers were used as cues for the authors to take note. Those surroundings provided a clue to understand the story.
Second, the metafictive devices were presented as peculiar features of stories and illustrations because the technique bridges each text and induces active participation from readers. The metafictive device in the picture book shows more than two narratives are connected and conclude as one story. Differently sized, colored letters and typograpic methods were used as a way to exhibit metafiction.
Third, the result of study to examine how the intertextuality was presented shows that pastiche or parody methods were used in characters, narratives, and background settings. This is due to the communication method of a picture book. The intertextuality was exhibited sometimes in inner scenes of the books or sometimes in quotations from other genres or other authors' books, In particular, certain characters from well-known fairy tales showed more intertextuality.