intertextuality

Examples

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• The film's success relied on its clever use of intertextuality to connect with audiences familiar with the original story.

• The books we chose supported students' engagement with social issues because of their intertextuality; they provided new or extended storylines on existing themes.

  Academic text (2012)

• Depending on the nature of that other text, intertextuality here falls into two categories.

  Academic text (1996)

• A lot of you were dealing with issues of continuity, of intertextuality, of tradition.

• Bloom's analysis comprises three categories in intertextuality, each of which describes a certain kind of literary influence.

  Academic text (1991)

• Susan Knight suggests a tripartite framework for the study of intertextuality.

  Academic text (1991)

• Much of its pleasure comes from its multiplicity, intertextuality, and joyful cross-reference.

  Blog text (8)

• The Holocaust narrative in The Nature of Blood hardly stands alone in Phillips's oeuvre in using intertextuality to signal distance or difference.

  Academic text (2008)

• Particularly active in this metafictional apocalypse is the notion of intertextuality: Onetti's use of his own previous work to structure this novel.

  Academic text (1996)

• Patric O'Donnell and Robert Con Davis edit a collection of essays entitled Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction.

  Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

I

interrelationship

vsintertextuality

2 5.9

A connection where two or more things affect each other

focuses specifically on links where one text refers to or influences another

R

referentiality

vsintertextuality

• Literature

9.6

A work that contains clear links to other books, art, or events

is broader covering influence or relationships between texts not only explicit references

How Intertextual

intertextuality

• Literature

1 9.6

reference

329 3.2

allusion

21 6.8

Surface Forms

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Etymology