Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody,[1][2][3][4][5] or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text.[6] These references are sometimes made deliberately and depend on a reader's prior knowledge and understanding of the referent, but the effect of intertextuality is not always intentional and is sometimes inadvertent. Often associated with strategies employed by writers working in imaginative registers (fiction, poetry, and drama and even non-written texts like performance art and digital media),[7][8] intertextuality may now be understood as intrinsic to any text.[9]

Intertextuality has been differentiated into referential and typological categories. Referential intertextuality refers to the use of fragments in texts and the typological intertextuality refers to the use of pattern and structure in typical texts.[10] A distinction can also be made between iterability and presupposition. Iterability makes reference to the "repeatability" of certain text that is composed of "traces", pieces of other texts that help constitute its meaning. Presupposition makes a reference to assumptions a text makes about its readers and its context.[11] As philosopher William Irwin wrote, the term "has come to have almost as many meanings as users, from those faithful to Julia Kristeva's original vision to those who simply use it as a stylish way of talking about allusion and influence".[12]

  1. ^ Gerard Genette (1997) Paratexts p.18
  2. ^ Kaźmierczak, Marta (2019-12-15). "Intertextuality as Translation Problem: Explicitness, Recognisability and the Case of "Literatures of Smaller Nations"". Russian Journal of Linguistics. 23 (2): 362–382. doi:10.22363/2312-9182-2019-23-2-362-382. ISSN 2312-9212.
  3. ^ Hallo, William W. (2010) The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres p.608
  4. ^ Cancogni, Annapaola (1985) The Mirage in the Mirror: Nabokov's Ada and Its French Pre-Texts pp.203-213
  5. ^ Hebel, Udo J (1989). Intertextuality, Allusion, and Quotation: An International Bibliography of Critical Studies (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature). Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313265174.
  6. ^ "Definition of Intertextuality", "Dictionary.com", Retrieved on 15 March 2018.
  7. ^ Clayton, John B. (1991). Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299130343.
  8. ^ Gadavanij, Savitri. "Intertextuality as Discourse Strategy", School of Language and Communication, Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  9. ^ Roozen, Kevin (2015). "Texts Get Their Meaning from Other Texts". Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Logan: Utah State UP. pp. 44–47. ISBN 978-0-87421-989-0.
  10. ^ Mayer, Rolf (1990). "Abstraction, Context, and Perspectivization – Evidentials in Discourse Semantics". Theoretical Linguistics. 16 (2–3). doi:10.1515/thli.1990.16.2-3.101. ISSN 0301-4428. S2CID 62219490.
  11. ^ Porter, James E. (1986). "Intertextuality and the discourse community". Rhetoric Review. 5 (1): 34–47. doi:10.1080/07350198609359131. ISSN 0735-0198. S2CID 170955347.
  12. ^ Irwin,2, October 2004, pp. 227–242, 228.