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.
... text's component parts are related to the rules of narrative langue. Meaning is not a question in structural analysis of this variety, where every signifier is finally provided with a signifying place in the total system ... TEXT UNBOUND 83.
A collection of essays by American, British and Australian scholars which approaches this field of textual enquiry from perspectives as diverse as Marxism and psychoanalysis.
Incorporating a wealth of illuminating examples from literary and cultural texts, this book offers an invaluable introduction to intertextuality for any students of literature and culture.
Graham Allen's Intertextuality follows all the major moves in the term's history, and clearly explains how intertextuality is employed in a variety of theories from structuralism to deconstruction, marxism to psychoanaysis.
Intertextuality
Looking at intertextuality in relation to structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, postcolonialism, Marxism, feminism and psychoanalytic theory, this is a fascinating and useful guide for all students of literature and culture.