![]() The multifaceted recyclings of a transdisciplinary methodology remind us that although in the past decades text/image studies has become an established academic research field in the first decades of the twenty-first century, its subversive potential to challenge cultural hegemonies has not diminished. Intro co-authored by Anna Kérchy and Catriona McAra: The feminist project has radicalised text/image relationships in myriad ways, disrupting the contours of discipline and medium. It is this relationship of correspondence and response that this chapter will analyze. However, when this utopianism and the ideologically loaded semiotic systems that support this utopianism become the subjects of profound doubt, are rendered indeterminate, or are eschewed altogether, the narrative can no longer be said to conform to the same literary mode and must, therefore, be placed within a separate mode and typological category. When the core-response is one of utopian reification or recuperation (no matter how stylistically revisionary and/or superficially subversive), the narrative response is one that maintains this mythopoeic core-it both corresponds to and responds as a work of mythopoesis. ![]() ![]() Zipes writes: ‘Each innovative retelling and rewriting of a well-known tale in the cultural heritage is an independent human act seeking to align itself with the original utopian impulse of the first-told tale.’ Though this statement basically traces the same line of approach followed by Kérchy, the most interesting connection is the point at which Kérchy’s sense of correspondence/response aligns with what Zipes frames as the ‘original utopian impulse.’ This alignment seems to beg the introduction of an intermediary term, a utopian core to which a ‘core-response’ could be said to relate, thereby delineating the formal correspondence of texts from the ideological response of texts. This chapter explores the space between correspondence and response that is neglected by the materialist cum historicist approach taken by folklorists such as Jack Zipes and Anna Kérchy. ![]()
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