intertextualityn.
/ɪntətɛkstjuːˈalɪti/ Literary Theory.
The need for one text to be read in the light of its allusions to and differences from the content or structure of other texts; the (allusive) relationship between esp. literary texts.
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intertextuality1973
1973 Sociol. Abstr. 21 960/1 2 hyp's [sc. hypotheses] have been extracted which seem appropriate in characterizing this text: the idea of constant reversibility between language & reality; & the idea of ‘intertextuality’, of a dialogue between this and other texts.
1976 MLN Dec. 1382 The notion of intertextuality emphasizes that to read is to place a work in a discursive space, relating it to other texts and to the codes of that space.
1979 S. Stewart Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore & Lit. ii. 48 Intertextuality is..a relationship between universes of discourse.
1984 S. Goldhill Lang., Sexuality, Narrative: Oresteia ii. 195 The intertextuality of the Oresteia and the Odyssey, which is so often ignored, is constitutive of the ‘dynamics of misogyny’ in the Oresteia.
1989 G. Steiner Real Presences ii. iv. 85 Are all theories of hermeneutics and ‘intertextuality’—a characteristic piece of current jargon which signals the obvious truth that, in Western literature, most serious writing incorporates, cites, denies, refers to previous writing—a waste product?
1995 Extrapolation Spring 60 Given the intertextuality of the Star Trek universe, it is likely that the miners Kamala meets in Ten Forward are an homage to ‘Mudd's Women’.
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