Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts

Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts

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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. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>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.<br /> </li> <li>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.<br /> </li> <li>Of special importance is the author’s reading (and translation) of other parts of Kristeva’s <i>Semeiotiké</i>.<br /> </li> <li>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.</li> </ul>