This book is a comprehensive introduction to the idea of intertextuality and the debates surrounding it, focusing on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette.
- 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.
- Focuses on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette, guiding the reader through the original texts of each of these.
- Of special importance is the author’s reading (and translation) of other parts of Kristeva’s Semeiotiké.
- Takes a fresh approach to the rival French critics - Angenot, Derrida, Girard and Ricoeur - who also worked on intertexuality and tackles the 'language' of intertextuality, shining new light on some of the terminology most commonly associated with this concept.
Prologue.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 - Intertextuality.
Kristeva’s Term in Context.
Kristeva’s Intertextuality and Semeiotikè.
Barthes.
Riffaterre.
Interdiscursivity.
Interdisciplinarity.
Internet and Hypertext.
Chapter 2 – Influence.
Influence v Intertextuality.
Bloom’s ‘Anxiety of Influence’ in Context.
Harold Bloom.
‘Traditional’ Influence.
Chapter 3 – Imitation.
Imitation in Context: Ml3&
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