Creative Writing 11

INTERTEXTUALITY
The word ‘intertextuality’ was derived from the
Latin word intertexto meaning ‘to mingle while
weaving’.

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Different Types of
Intertexuality

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Appropriation
• It is where a text is adapted from the original text.
It's important to note that it isn't just copied instead
reimagined in some way to make it new whether
it's for a different context or a different audience.
Example
Marcel Duchamp’s artwork, L.H.O.O.Q. is an
appropriation of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Duchamp took an
image of Da Vinci’s painting and drew a
mustache on it.
Allusion
• It is where you allude something so it’s referenced to
another text so, not only can be a reference of a text but it
can also a person, a place and an event. The audience or the
readers has to make the connection
Example
You’re acting like such a Scrooge!
Alluding to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, this line means
that the person is being miserly and selfish, just like the
character Scrooge from the story.
Parody
•It is a funny interpretation of a text. It is mimicking
or copying a text in order to comment on it; a
humorous interpretation of a serious piece of
literature, writing, art or music. Its main purpose is
to entertain the reader.
Example
William Shakespeare wrote Sonnet 130 in parody of traditional love
poems common in his day. He presented an anti-love poem theme in a
manner of a love poem, mocking the exaggerated comparisons they made:

“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks...”
Quotation
• A direct reference to another text with
acknowledgement of its composer.
Example
• In Margaret Atwood’s speech, Spotty Handed
Villainesses, she quotes Dame Rebecca West, saying,
“Ladies of Great Britain...we have not enough evil in
us.”
Adaptation

• A film, TV Drama, or stage play that is based on a

written work.
The Importance of Intertextuality
•Intertextuality shows how much a culture can influence its authors,
even as the authors in turn influence the culture. It also shows how a
similar cultural, religious, political, or moral ideology can be expressed
in very different ways through different cultural practices.