Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a book that revolves all around changes. From start to finish it will through you for a loop and make you think twice about every little detail. The changes that happen to the characters in this book a quite intriguing for the fact that what their entire alma mater stands for switches in the end. Three characters in particular changed dramatically from beginning to end. Dirk Gently is a big character judging by the title. He gets an ego check and changes
"And no doubt that is what reading is: rewriting the text of the work within the text of our lives." Roland Barthos When discussing intertextuality, it could be argued that a text is not only written material such as plays, novel and magazines, but everything; that there is in fact no world outside of textuality. Your very life could be called a text, a story always being written, and every novel that you read, every programme you watch and every conversation that you have is, in Piaget's words
Kubla Khan’s description of his stately pleasure-dome contains many picturesque elements which appear to be incorporating all the perfect components of nature as a whole. The contrasting images of the described landscape portray and further accentuate the awe-striking male figure against the mysterious and sensual oriental women. The characteristic mystery of these oriental women remains uncovered as Coleridge objectifies them with his stereotype, and identifies them as part of the mystical and enchanting