Intertextuality Debates and Contexts

This is a comprehensive introduction to 'intertextuality', a term which describes the idea that meaning only exists between a text and all the other texts to which it refers and relates.

Mary Orr is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Exeter.

Prologue

1

(5)

Introduction

6

(14)

1 Intertextuality

20

(40)

Kristeva's term in context

21

(3)

Kristeva's intertextuality and Semeiotikè

24

(8)

Barthes

32

(5)

Riffaterre

37

(3)

Interdiscursivity

40

(4)

Interdisciplinarity

44

(5)

Internet and hypertext

49

(11)

2 Influence

60

(34)

Bloom's 'anxiety of influence' in context

61

(7)

Harold Bloom

68

(15)

'Traditional' influence

83

(11)

3 Imitation

94

(36)

Imitation in context: mimesis or anti-mimesis?

95

(5)

Richard Dawkins: genetics and 'memetics'

100

(6)

Gérard Genette: rhetoric and the mimologic

106

(6)

René Girard: scandal and excommunication

112

(8)

Countering the Canon: imitatio v. plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit

120

(10)

4 Quotation

130

(38)

Quotation in context: dictionary or postmodern definitions?

132

(5)

Quotation's crystallizations: illustration in few other words

137

(2)

Allusion

139

(1)

Quotation's aptness: adeptness in other words

140

(1)

Abridgement as allegory and parable

141

(2)

Bridging as cycle and cyclification

143

(2)

Span and interpretation

145

(7)

Quotation as extraction: recirculation and exchanges in so many other words

152

(1)

Prophecy

153

(3)

Translation

156

(5)

Coda: the return of reference and the work of Paul Ricoeur

161

(7)

Conclusions

168

(15)

Notes

183

(25)

References and Bibliography

208

(20)

Index

228

(10)

Directory of Alternative Terms

238

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