IDEA?

Any
inspirations??
Intertextuality
Anita
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JULIA KRISTEVA
INVENTOR OF THE TERM
 Julia Kristeva_____________________
• No Text is “Self-Born”

 Texts can influence, derive from, parody, reference, quote, contrast with, build
on, draw from, or even inspire each other.

• All Texts Relate to One Another

In so many ways, literature can be interconnected intertextually, on purpose or not.

• Influence, Hidden or Explicit

Authors are influenced cumulatively by what they've read, whether or not they
explicitly show their influences in their writing or on their characters' sleeves. Sometimes
they do want to draw parallels between their work and an inspirational work or influential
canon—think fan fiction or homages. 
Definition…

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's

meaning by another text

“any text is the absorption and transformation of another”

―Kristeva
 Roland Barthes____________________
• Barthes argues that a text can never be free from the network in
which it is produced and it always connects with the other texts
in this network, and it is a ‘woven tissue’.

• Barthes announced 'the death of the author' and 'the birth of the
reader', declaring that 'a text's unity lies not in its origin but in
its destination' (Barthes 1977, 148).

• The framing of texts by other texts has implications not only

for their writers but also for their readers
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INSPIRATIONS

TEXT
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OTHER TEXTS
QUOTATION

CITATION
VENTURE OUTSIDE
THE GENRE

EMBRACE IT
Thank You