![]() Deploying Linda Hutcheon's Interpretation of Parody, the Intertextual analysis results that these mythological characters are resituated to represent marginal communities, like ex-convicts, fugitives, drifters, gangsters, immigrants, homeless, laborers, prostitutes, and relocators. This research, thus, aims to be a descriptive-analytical study that not only interprets such references through intertextual analysis but also uses pragmatic analysis to examine how the novel parodically portrays modern man's spiritual journey. In fact, the new contexts are pragmatically intended to parody American modernity in leading modern man to a spiritual crisis. These entities, however, are simplified as merely intertextual references by most studies. ![]() ![]() In American Gods, Neil Gaiman ridicules this condition by reviving religious, folklore, and mythological entities into new contexts. One of the reasons for modern man's mental disorders is a spiritual crisis. ![]()
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