Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film

Steven F. Walker is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Provocative Reinterpretations2 Myth and Secret Message in Four Linked Texts3 Proust’s Cryptic Mass as Buried Treasure4 Cryptic Platonic Subtexts5 Three Modernist Cryptic Subtexts6 Behind the CameraBibliographyIndex

"Cryptic Subtexts is a far reaching, original, engaging book that will alter the direction, and enrich the scope of, intertextual studies."-- Jon Thiem, Professor emeritus, Colorado State University"Walker’s Cryptic Subtexts in Modern Literature and Film: Secret Messages and Buried Treasure is a rare treat for the reader: an eloquent, comprehensive, yet accessible account of a promising new category and a rich panoply of literary, visual, music, and film artworks. Crossing cultures, artforms and disciplines, and showing how they productively interact even when—and especially when—they differ, Walker’s has created a book that is much needed today." -- Professor Sanja Bahun, University of Essex