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NOTAS SOBRE INTERTEXTUALIDAD

Term coined by Julia Kristeva in her study of Bakhtin's work on dialogue and carnival.
The basic premise of the theory of intertextuality is that any text is essentially a
mosaic of references to or quotations from other texts; a text is not a closed system
and does not exist in isolation. It is always involved in a dialogue with other texts, just
as Joyce's Ulysses is involved in a dialogue with Homeric epics and other texts.
Intertextuality is not simply a matter of influences which pass from one author to
another, but of the multiple and complex relations that exist between texts in both
synchronic and diachronic terms. "Influence" is simply one mode of intertextuality.
Although the term "intertextuality" is Kristeva's, Harold Bloom's notion of
literary revisionism and of the anxiety of influence is broadly similar in that it
stresses that it is the relationship between existing poems that creates new poems.
Genette's concepts of the palimpsest and of hypertext also supply a theory of
intertextuality. (203-204)
Dictionary of Critical Theory, Penguin Reference, Londres, 2000

Intertextuality or the work of meaning through which one text in referring to another
text both displaces this other text and receives from it an extension of meaning...
[Intertextuality is] not just as one complement of the structural analysis of narratives,
but as an important corrective insofar as it dynamizes the text, makes meaning move,
and gives rise to extensions and transgressions in brief, insofar as it makes the text
work. (148)
The act of reading should be seen as the meeting point of the itineraries of
meaning offered by the text as a production of fiction ... and the free course (parcours)
of meaning brought about by the reader seeking "to apply" the text to life. (146)
Paul Ricoeur, Figuring the Sacred, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1995.
(Traduccin David Pellauer)

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