Instructor: J. Stalnaker
Intertextuality was invented in the 1960s to characterize interrelations between texts. Soon ubiquitous, it remains nonetheless problematic. Understood subversively, it refers to any echo of a text – anterior or not – in another text; in a more traditional usage, its meaning has been restricted to sources and influences. The theory and history of the notion needs to be reviewed, with examples of some of its applications.
