Meaning of intertextuality | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
   countable, uncountable
2. The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have⟳ read⟳ thousands of books.”

“All of these issues—subjectivity, intertextuality, reference, ideology—underlie the problematized relations between history and fiction in postmodernism.”

“From the translator's point⟳ of view⟳, therefore, both types of intertextuality—or simply all kinds of intertextuality—are important, since the translator, ideally, ought not to deprive the reader of even a smallest chunk of the intertextual load⟳ of the original.”

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