intertextuality

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English - Turkish
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intertextual
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English - English
The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit

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

The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text
Relationship between two or more texts that quote from one another, allude to one another, or otherwise connect New Testament passages that quote from the Old Testament are one example of intertextuality Another example is Old Testament books such as Deuteronomy or the prophets that refer to the stories found in Exodus Whereas a redaction critic would use such intertextuality to argue for a particular order and process of the authorship of the books in question, literary criticism takes a synchronic view that deals with the texts in their final form, as an interconnected body of literature Some postmodern theorists like to talk about the relationship between "intertextuality" and "hypertextuality" - hypertextuality being the sort of jumping around one does on the world wide web
a technical term in literary theory to describe the way in which later texts echo earlier ones, often intentionally A popular way of describing the phenomena is to say that later texts are woven from the threads of earlier ones The NT is full of intertextual relationships with the OT, e g , all the quotations of, and allusions to, prophecy Acts 17 is loaded with subtle and playful intertextual relationships to both the LXX (i e , Jewish intertexture) and popular traditions about Socrates (i e , Hellenistic intertexture)
In a text, implied references to or implied influences from another text This concept allows a reader to make links between genres, and to see how themes, plot, etc may develop or change in relation or in light of that other text
The reference to a another, separate and distinct, text within a text
The relationship that exists between different texts, especially literary texts, or the reference in one text to others For instance, when reading Missing May, the narrator consistently refers to Wizard of Oz Those references are intertextual references--bringing one text into another
The system of references in one text to other texts through quotations, allusions, parodies, or thematic references
A term introduced by Julia Kristeva and widely adopted by literary theorists to designate the complex ways in which a given text is related to other texts As every text is constructed as a mosaic of other texts, every text is an absorption and transformation of other texts According to Kristeva, the notion of intertextuality comes to replace that of intersubjectivity

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intertextual
Pertaining to intertextuality; being or involving the reference of one text by another