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intertextuality: a standalone construct

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intertextuality1 CONSTRUCTIntertextualityKRISTEVA · TEXT MOSAIC

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Literary theory

A text's meaning shaped by its relationships to other texts

Julia Kristeva coined the term intertextualité in a 1966 essay on Mikhail Bakhtin, later collected in Séméiotikè (1969) and translated as "Word, dialogue, and novel" (1980), proposing that any text is built as a mosaic of quotations, an absorption and transformation of other texts rather than a self-contained message from a single author. Drawing on Bakhtin's account of dialogism, the idea that every utterance answers and anticipates other utterances, she argued that meaning arises between texts and not within one alone. Roland Barthes extended the concept in "From work to text" (1977), recasting the literary work as an open tissue of citations with no fixed origin, and Gérard Genette organised the many relations among texts under the heading of transtextuality in Palimpsests (1997), distinguishing types such as quotation, allusion, parody, and pastiche. What makes intertextuality a landmark is its scope: it reframes reading and interpretation across literature, film, and other media as the tracing of relationships between texts, shifting attention from an author's intention to the web of prior texts a work reworks.[1][2][3]

Unit
A property of texts: the network of quotations, allusions, and absorptions that links a text to other texts
Recovery means
Not applicable
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Identified through close reading and source analysis that trace quotations, allusions, echoes, parody, and pastiche linking a text to prior texts

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absorption6 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, six constructsattention5 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, five constructsessay1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

  1. Kristeva, J. (1980). Word, dialogue, and novel (T. Gora, A. Jardine, & L. S. Roudiez, Trans.). In L. S. Roudiez (Ed.), Desire in language: A semiotic approach to literature and art (pp. 64–91). Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1969)
  2. Barthes, R. (1977). From work to text (S. Heath, Trans.). In Image, music, text (pp. 155–164). Hill and Wang.
  3. Genette, G. (1997). Palimpsests: Literature in the second degree (C. Newman & C. Doubinsky, Trans.). University of Nebraska Press. (Original work published 1982)

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