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Billy Woods’s Literary Intertexts

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Kolarič J.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

2020

issue 10

182-193

While-like all artistic forms-it allows for deviation from this standard rule, rap is heavily reliant on building blocks of sixteen bars and a refrain. In addition, rhyme plays a prominent role in structuring rap, which is why the form is also colloquially referred to as “rhyming.” In view of this, Billy Woods’s record Today, I Wrote Nothing was a considerable departure from the existing rap norm. On the record, Woods stylistically adapted a collection of works by Russian absurdist writer Daniil Kharms, which was also called Today, I Wrote Nothing. Kharms was known for writing short prose without any formal structure. Most of his stories deal with absurd situations and slapstick humour. The structure of the fragmented fiction is adapted into rap on Woods’s record. The long rap verses are replaced by short songs without any specific narrative. The record maintains the non-structure of Kharms’s writing, as well as its absurdity, but it abandons any semblance of traditional rap. The second important stylistic and structural choice made in Woods’s record was the integration of aspects of Flannery O’Connor’s writing, particularly its humour and darkness. The article will focus on how Billy Woods integrates intertextuality into his lyrics to give the songs additional layers of meaning.

Absurdita v Kafkově románu Proces a její reflexe ve dvou dílech rusky psané literatury (Daniil Charms a Vladimir Jermolajev)

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Kitzlerová J.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

2024

vol. 34

issue 69

23-31

The paper reflects on the absurd humour contained in Kafka’s novel The Trial in two selected works of Russian literature. Using the example of two texts representing different genres (a short story and a poem) by Daniil Kharms and Vladimir Yermolayev, it shows how these two authors were inspired by this aspect of Kafka’s work: in the case of Vladimir Yermolayev, the source of inspiration is completely unquestionable and is already referred to by the direct allusion in the title. The entire poem is then constructed as a lawsuit that originates, unfolds and concludes within the lyrical subject, which is the metaphorical Kafka himself. For Daniil Charms, the source of inspiration is unacknowledged, though obvious: Charms was inspired by one particular passage of Kafka’s novel, which he altered in accordance with his poetics.

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Billy Woods’s Literary Intertexts

Absurdita v Kafkově románu Proces a její reflexe ve dvou dílech rusky psané literatury (Daniil Charms a Vladimir Jermolajev)