Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts

By Mary Orr

Book Overview

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 Semeiotik . 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745631215
• ISBN13: 9780745631219
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"