Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts

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.

• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Of special importance is the author's reading (and translation) of other parts of Kristeva's Semeiotik .
  
• 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.

Author: Mary Orr
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 09/11/2003
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.88w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780745631219

About the Author
Mary Orr is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Exeter.

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