Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts

Introduction.

Chapter 1 - Intertextuality.

Kristeva’s Term in Context.

Kristeva’s Intertextuality and Semeiotikè.

Barthes.

Riffaterre.

Interdiscursivity.

Interdisciplinarity.

Internet and Hypertext.

Chapter 2 – Influence.

Influence v Intertextuality.

Bloom’s ‘Anxiety of Influence’ in Context.

Harold Bloom.

‘Traditional’ Influence.

Chapter 3 – Imitation.

Imitation in Context: Mimesis or Anti-mimesis?.

Richard Dawkins: Genetics and ‘Memetics’.

Gérard Genette: Rhetoric and the Mimologic.

René Girard: Sandal and Excommunication.

Countering the Canon: Imitatio v Plagiarism, Forgery, Counterfeit.

Chapter 4 - Quotation.

Quotation in context: Dictionary or Postmodern Definitions?.

Quotation’s Crystallizations: Illustrations in Few Other Words.

AllusionQuotation’s Aptness: Adeptness in Other Words.

Abridgement as Allegory and Parable.

Bridging as Cycle and Cyclification.

Span and Interpretation.

Quotation as Extraction: Re-circulations and Exchanges in so Many Other Words.

Prophecy.

Translation.

Coda: the Return of Reference and the Work of Paul Ricoeur.

Conclusions.

Notes.

Refernces and Bibliography.

Index.

Dictionary of Alternative Terms.