Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts

"Mary Orr’s Intertextuality is a major achievement. A provocative analysis of the “canonization” of intertextuality and its main theorists, it is also a probing anatomization of intertextuality’s “others”, such as influence, imitation and quotation. Theoretically acute, and sensitive to metaphor as much as to meaning, this book illuminates papyri, Renaissance commonplace books and the internet as much as it reorientates our understanding of intertextuality. A “must read” for everyone interested in critical theory." Michael Worton, Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature, University College London

"While advancing a spirited defence of Kristeva, Mary Orr offers a knowledgeable theoretical discussion of intertextuality that throws light on interdiscursivity, interdisciplinarity and intercultural discourse. Intertextuality argues vigorously that hypertexts serve as a generational marker for younger critics and encourage not just a modish but a new way of viewing the translingual and transcultural imagination. In so doing, Professor Orr recuperates a revitalized metacritical consideration of influence, imitation, allusion and quotation in a fascinating book that should open criticism to an exciting future." Allan H. Pasco, Hall Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Kansas