intertextuality

Shaping of a text's meaning by another text

Conceptacademic discipline literature termQ667404

Also known as intertext

Instance of: academic discipline
, literature term

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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, or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text. 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, intertextuality may now be understood as intrinsic to any text.

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Different from: intersex criterion used: homophone
transtextuality
Has characteristic: reference
Facet of: literary theory
Members / parts: transtextuality
paratext
Named by: Tel Quel

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