Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts - Hardcover

Orr, Mary

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Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the idea of intertextuality and the debates surrounding it, focusing on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette.


  • A comprehensive introduction to 'intertextuality', a term which describes the idea that meaning only exists between a text and all the other texts to which it refers and relates.
  • Focuses on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette, guiding the reader through the original texts of each of these.
  • Of special importance is the author’s reading (and translation) of other parts of Kristeva’s Semeiotiké.
  • Takes a fresh approach to the rival French critics - Angenot, Derrida, Girard and Ricoeur - who also worked on intertexuality and tackles the 'language' of intertextuality, shining new light on some of the terminology most commonly associated with this concept.

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About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

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.

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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.

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9780745631219: Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts

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ISBN 10:  0745631215 ISBN 13:  9780745631219
Publisher: Polity, 2003
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