Definition of Intertextuality

1. Noun. The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit. ¹

2. Noun. The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intertextuality

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intertextuality

intertemporally
intertendinous connections
interterm
interterminal
interterritorial
interterritorially
intertestamental
intertex
intertexed
intertexes
intertexing
intertext
intertexts
intertextual
intertextualities
intertextuality (current term)
intertextually
intertexture
interthalamic
interthalamic adhesion
interthoracic
interthread
intertidal
intertidal zone
intertidally
intertie
interties
intertill
intertillage
intertillages

Literary usage of Intertextuality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Translator as Intercultural Mediator by Eleonora Federici (2006)
"M. Pfister, "How Postmodern is intertextuality?" in HF Plett, ed., intertextuality, Berlin, ... For a discussion on 'intertextuality' see A. Bernardelli, ..."

2. Vergilius Redivivus: Studies in Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry by Estelle Haan (2005)
"As such, the Addisonian Latin text exemplifies Kristeva's definition of intertextuality: "any text is a mosaic of quotations; any text is an absorption and ..."

3. Passive Tranquility: The Sculpture of Filippo Della Valle by Vernon Hyde Minor (1997)
"Stephen Heath, a literary critic who uses intertextuality, perceives a ... That constitutes its intertextuality."70 The very fact that one artist will ..."

4. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"... however scholarly, relying as it does on a Hellenistic intertextuality that Mark Andreas Seller intricately analyses for an entire volume, ..."

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