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Intertextuality: An Introduction

Intertextuality: An Introduction e laine martin Intertextuality An Introduction Intertextuality, which has occasionally been used somewhat blithely to designate interdisciplinary and comparative investigations of various sorts, may, in its theo- rization and historicization, not be blithe at all. a Th t is, we may not agree on its meaning. Most critics agree that the term was coined in the late 1960s by Julia Kristeva, who combined ideas from Bakhtin on the social context of language with Saussure’s positing of the systematic features of language.1 Kristeva’s den fi ition, in her essay “Word, Dialogue and Novel,” reads: intertextuality is “a mosaic of quo- tations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another. e Th notion of intertextuality replaces that of intersubjectivity, and poetic language is read as at least doub ” l(K e risteva 85, cited in Moi 37).2 Kristeva’s work on intertextuality in the late sixties coincided with the transition from structuralism to poststructuralism. Graham Allen describes this move as “one in which assertions of objectivity, sci- entic fi rigour, methodological stability and other highly rationalistic- s ounding terms are replaced by an emphasis on uncertainty, indeterminacy, incommunica- bility, subjectivity, desire, pleasure and play” (3). i Th s uncertainty undercut autho- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Intertextuality: An Introduction

Martin, Elaine,
The Comparatist , Volume 35 – Jun 15, 2011
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e laine martin Intertextuality An Introduction Intertextuality, which has occasionally been used somewhat blithely to designate interdisciplinary and comparative investigations of various sorts, may, in its theo- rization and historicization, not be blithe at all. a Th t is, we may not agree on its meaning. Most critics agree that the term was coined in the late 1960s by Julia Kristeva, who combined ideas from Bakhtin on the social context of language with Saussure’s positing of the systematic features of language.1 Kristeva’s den fi ition, in her essay “Word, Dialogue and Novel,” reads: intertextuality is “a mosaic of quo- tations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another. e Th notion of intertextuality replaces that of intersubjectivity, and poetic language is read as at least doub ” l(K e risteva 85, cited in Moi 37).2 Kristeva’s work on intertextuality in the late sixties coincided with the transition from structuralism to poststructuralism. Graham Allen describes this move as “one in which assertions of objectivity, sci- entic fi rigour, methodological stability and other highly rationalistic- s ounding terms are replaced by an emphasis on uncertainty, indeterminacy, incommunica- bility, subjectivity, desire, pleasure and play” (3). i Th s uncertainty undercut autho-

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