Intertextuality (The New Critical Idiom)

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This successful introduction to intertextuality deftly introduces this crucial area and relates its significance to key theories and movements in the study of literature. The third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter, looking at intermediality, and how the study of intertextuality has changed over the last ten years. Offering a clear guide to this crucial area, Graham Allen: outlines the history and contemporary use of the term incorporates a wealth of illuminating examples from literature and culture examines the politics and aesthetics of the term relates intertextuality to global cultures and new media Looking at intertextuality in relation to literary and critical theory as well as contemporary culture and media, this book offers a fascinating and useful approach to all aspects of literary studies, especially those dealing with adaptation, media, or comparative studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction 1. Origins: Saussure, Bakhtin, Kristeva The relational word: Saussure The social word: Bakhtin Dialogism Tel Quel, production: Kristeva Dialogism to intertextuality Transposition Bakhtin or Kristeva? 2. The text unbound: Barthes From work to text The death of the Author Readerly and writerly texts The paradoxical text 3. Structuralist approaches: Genette and Riffaterre Structuralist poetics: Genette Transtextuality Paratextuality Hypertextuality Structuralist hermeneutics: Riffaterre Literary competence 4. Situated readers: Bloom, feminism, postcolonialism Influence revisited: Bloom Mapping misreading Gynocriticism and intertextuality The return of the female author The return to Bakhtin: feminism and postcolonialism 5. Postmodern conclusions Intertextuality in the non-literary arts Postmodernism and intertextuality Postmodernism and the return of history Intertextuality, hypertextuality and the World Wide Web 6. Intertextuality today The culture industry Adaptation studies The de-centred text Remediation 7. 20 Years On Intermediality Defining intertextuality Plurality, proliferation: the tradition of the deluge GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX