Intertextuality - Debates And Contexts

• 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.

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: Mimesis or Anti-mimesis?.

Richard Dawkins: Genetics and ‘Memetics’.

Gérard Genette: Rhetoric and the Mimologic.

René Girard: Sandal and Excommunication.

Countering the Canon: Imitatio v Plagiarism, Forgery, Counterfeit.

Chapter 4 - Quotation.

Quotation in context: Dictionary or Postmodern Definitions?.

Quotation’s Crystallizations: Illustrations in Few Other Words.

AllusionQuotation’s Aptness: Adeptness in Other Words.

Abridgement as Allegory and Parable.

Bridging as Cycle and Cyclification.

Span and Interpretation.

Quotation as Extraction: Re-circulations and Exchanges in so Many Other Words.

Prophecy.

Translation.

Coda: the Return of Reference and the Work of Paul Ricoeur.

Conclusions.

Notes.

Refernces and Bibliography.

Index.

Dictionary of Alternative Terms.