Intertextuality

Graham Allen 2000

E-Book: 249 English pages

Publisher: Routledge

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Since Julia Kristeva first coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies, taken up by practically every theoretical movement. Yet intertextuality remains the subject of such a diversity of interpretations and is defined so variously, that it is anything but a transparent, commonly understood term. This book, the first full-length study of intertextuality in English, follows all the major moves in the term’s history and clearly explains how intertextuality is employed in structuralist, post-structuralist, semiotic, deconstructive, postcolonial, Marxist, feminist and psychoanalytic theories. With a wealth of illuminating examples from literary and cultural texts, including special examination of the World Wide Web, this book will prove invaluable for any student of literature and culture.

About Author

Graham Allen lectures on eighteenth-century literature, Romantic and Victorian literature, and literary theory at University College, Cork. He is author of Harold Bloom: A Poetics of Conflict.