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 Semeiotiké.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.