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Anthropomorphization and Intertextuality in Anthony Browne’s Picturebooks

This thesis aims to identify the interconnection of anthropomorphization and intertextuality in Anthony Browne’s picturebooks. The thesis examines how this connection between anthropomorphization and intertextuality is achieved in Browne’s picturebooks, and what implications each has for the other. The analysis of anthropomorphization focuses on ape-like characters in Browne’s picturebooks, while the analysis of intertextuality closely inspects intervisual references. The thesis outlines how Browne’s remarkable way of incorporating anthropomorphic characters with intertextual and intervisual references, in two of his highly esteemed picturebooks: Willy the Dreamer (1997) and Voices in the Park (1998), contributes to creating counterpoints. The thesis aims to identify the varieties of counterpoints used in the analysed picturebooks based on terminology adopted from Nikolajeva and Scott (2001). The most important features of anthropomorphic characters and intertextual and intervisual references present in both picturebooks are investigated. The thesis identifies the role of anthropomorphization and intertextuality in creating counterpoint and producing ambiguity and indeterminacy while positioning the reader in a co-authoring role. This thesis shows that Browne replaces characters included in intervisual references to paintings, literary works and other artefacts (e.g. scenes from films, advertisements, etc.) with anthropomorphic ape-like characters or symbols associated with them (e.g. bananas), thus linking anthropomorphization and intertextuality.

Anthony Browne ; anthropomorphization ; intertextuality ; intervisuality

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