Dictionary

intertextuality en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French intertextualité.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
   • All of these issues—subjectivity, intertextuality, reference, ideology—underlie the problematized relations between history and fiction in postmodernism. 1988, Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.
   • From the translator's point of view, therefore, both types of intertextuality—or simply all kinds of intertextuality—are important, since the translator, ideally, ought not to deprive the reader of even a smallest chunk of the intertextual load of the original. 2017, Aleksander Rzyman, The Intertextuality of Terry Pratchett's Discworld as a Major Challenge for the Translator, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:
2. (countable, uncountable) The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.

Forms

Deriveds

digitextuality

Translations (11)

ar تَنَاص (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written) · eu testuartekotasun (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written) · de Intertextualität (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written) · fr intertextualité (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written) · ar تَعالُق النَّصِّي (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written) · da intertekstualitet (references among texts) · ar تَعالُق النَّصِّي (references among texts) · es intertextualidad (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written) · pl intertekstualność (references among texts) · ar تَنَاص (references among texts) · pl intertekstualność (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written)