Mary Orr

Gebundenes Buch

Intertextuality

Debates and Contexts

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

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

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