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. Mary Orr focuses on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette - and, with an innovative perspective, guides the reader through the original texts of each of them. Of special importance is the author's reading of Kristeva's Semeiotikè. Orr's investigation takes a fresh approach to the rival French critics who also worked on intertexuality (Angenot, Derrida, Girard and Ricoeur) and tackles the 'language' of intertextuality, shining new light on some of the terminology most commonly associated with this concept. In this innovative and rigorous analysis of intertextuality, Mary Orr presents the reader with her own subtle and nuanced view. She has created an engaging book which will become the standard work on this subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780745606217
• ISBN-10: 0745606210
• Artikelnr.: 21616919

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