Intertextuality Essay

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No TEXT is an island! The way texts make reference to other texts (often deliberate, clever ways). Each text that is created, is automatically interrelated to texts that were created in the past, and the ones that will be created in the future. Intertextuality is the shaping of text’s meaning by other texts. It can refer to an author’s borrowing and transformation of prior text or to a lreader’s referencing of one text in reading another. Think of the many episodes of series that are a play on words of a film/movies/tv shows. We live in the 21st century; the high age of intertextuality. One can see it contantly in movies, tv and the internet which endlessly refers to earlier texts. Parody is all build on intertextuality. Movies and parody shows provide an intricate tapestry of references to other texts or genres. To fully understand parody, you need to understand to which other text the parody is referring to. Methods of intertextuality: - Translation - Parody - Pastiche (scary movie) - Plagiarism - Allusion - Homage (tribute) - Echo - Quotation - Recycling - Spoof - Sequel - Prequel - Remake - Spinoffs Julia Kristeva (Born 1941) – each texts exists in relation to others. The text is an intersection of texts and codes, the absorption and transformation of another text. She introduced the semiotic notion of intertextuality. She says intertextuality works on a vertical axis (Paradigmetic) and thus connecting a text to other texts. The focus here is what Roland Barthes refers to as the ‘already written’. Ha says a text is multidimentional space in which a vareity of writing, none of them original, blend and clash. The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior, never original. His only power is to mix writing, to couter the ones with the others, in such a way as to never rest on one of them. Some texts allude directly to

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