intertextuality

Noun

Meaning

The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.

The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.

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Intertextuality is further demonstrated in machinima not only in the re-appropriation of content but in artistic and communicatory techniques. Source: Internet

Protestantism itself is inherently liberal in its claim that any Joe Schmoe who can read has the authority to take the text in its plainest translated sense rather than wrestling through the questions of symbolism, context, intertextuality, etc. Source: Internet

This shifts the reading of a blog post from an exercise in intertextuality to the more traditional practice of continuous reading which marginalized a key indicator of the texts original context. Source: Internet

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