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No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional ideas about reading or writing undisturbed.
This book, the first full-length study of intertextuality in English, fills an important gap. Following all the major turns in the term's history, this handy guide clearly explains how intertextuality is employed in structuralist, post-structuralist, semiotic, deconstructive, reader-response, marxist, feminist and psychoanalytic theory. From the alternative origins of Saussurean linguistics and the work of Bakhtin the book traces the major directions of intertextual theory to the postmodern present.
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INTERTEXTUALITY Since Julia Kristeva first coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies, taken up by practically every theoretical movement. Yet intertextuality remains the subject of such a diversity of interpretations and is defined so variously, that it is anything but a transparent, commonly understood term. This book, the first full-length study of intertextuality in English, follows all the major moves in the term’s history and clearly explains how intertextuality is employed in structuralist, post-structuralist, semiotic, deconstructive, postcolonial, Marxist, feminist and psychoanalytic theories. With a wealth of illuminating examples from literary and cultural texts, including special examination of the World Wide Web, this book will prove invaluable for any student of literature and culture. Graham Allen lectures on eighteenth-century literature, Romantic and Victorian literature, and literary theory at University College, Cork. He is author of Harold Bloom: A Poetics of Conflict. THE NEW CRITICAL IDIOM SERIES EDITOR: JOHN DRAKAKIS, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING The New Critical Idiom is an invaluable series of introductory guides to today’s critical terminology. Each book: · provides a handy, explanatory guide to the use (and abuse) of the term · offers an original and distinctive overview by a leading literary and cultural critic · relates the term to the larger field of cultural representation. With a strong emphasis on clarity, lively debate and the widest possible breadth of examples, The New Critical Idiom is an indispensable approach to key topics in literary studies. · Other books in this series: Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran Autobiography by Linda Anderson Class by Gary Day Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba Culture/Metaculture by Francis Mulhern Discourse by Sara Mills Cora Kaplan Gothic by Fred Botting Historicism by Paul Hamilton Humanism by Tony Davies Ideology by David Hawkes Literature by Peter Widdowson Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum Modernism by Peter Childs Myth by Laurence Coupe Narrative Laurence Coupe Parody by Simon Dentith Pastoral by Terry Gifford Romanticism by Aidan Day Science Fiction by Aidan Day Roberts Sexuality by Joseph Bristow Stylistics by Richard Bradford The Unconscious by Antony Easthope INTERTEXTUALITY Graham Allen LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2000 Graham Allen All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means