Mary Orr

Intertextuality

Debates and Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

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.
A comprehensive introduction to intertextuality , a term which describes the idea that meaning only exists between a text and all the other texts to which it refers and relates.
Focuses on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette, guiding the reader through the original texts of each of these.
Of special importance is the author's reading (and translation) of other parts of Kristeva's Semeiotiké .
Takes a fresh approach to the rival French critics - Angenot, Derrida, Girard and Ricoeur - who also worked on intertexuality and tackles the language of intertextuality, shining new light on some of the terminology most commonly associated with this concept.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 149mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780745631219
• ISBN-10: 0745631215
• Artikelnr.: 13612650

Autorenporträt

Mary Orr is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue.

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 OtherWords.

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 soMany 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.

Rezensionen

"Mary Orr's Intertextuality is a major achievement. Aprovocative analysis of the "canonization" ofintertextuality and its main theorists, it is also a probinganatomization of intertextuality's "others", suchas influence, imitation and quotation. Theoretically acute, andsensitive to metaphor as much as to meaning, this book illuminatespapyri, Renaissance commonplace books and the internet as much asit reorientates our understanding of intertextuality. A "mustread" for everyone interested in critical theory." MichaelWorton, Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language andLiterature, University College London

"While advancing a spirited defence of Kristeva, Mary Orroffers a knowledgeable theoretical discussion of intertextualitythat throws light on interdiscursivity, interdisciplinarity andintercultural discourse. Intertextuality argues vigorouslythat hypertexts serve as a generational marker for younger criticsand encourage not just a modish but a new way of viewing thetranslingual and transcultural imagination. In so doing, ProfessorOrr recuperates a revitalized metacritical consideration ofinfluence, imitation, allusion and quotation in a fascinating bookthat should open criticism to an exciting future." Allan H.Pasco, Hall Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Universityof Kansas