The Hours - Film Analysis

The Suicide of the Author and his Reincarnation in the Reader: Intertextuality in The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Andrea Wild
In his novel The Hours, Michael Cunningham weaves a dazzling fabric of intertextual references to Virginia Woolf's works as well as to her biography. In this essay, I shall partly yield to the academic itch to tease out the manifold and sophisticated allusions to the numerous intertexts. My aim, however, is not to point out every single reference to Woolf and her works--such an endeavour of source-hunting would fail alone because of the sheer abundance of interte…