1. Origins: Saussure, Bakhtin, Kristeva. The relational word: Saussure. The social word: Bakhtin. Dialogism. Tel Quel, production: Kristeva. Dialogism to intertextuality. Transposition. Bakhtin or Kristeva? -- 2. The text unbound: Barthes. From work to text. The death of the Author. Readerly and writerly texts. The paradoxical text -- 3. Structuralist approaches: Genette and Riffaterre. Structuralist poetics: Genette. Transtextuality. Paratextuality. Hypertextuality. Structuralist hermeneutics: Riffaterre. Literary competence -- 4. Situated readers: Bloom, feminism, postcolonialism. Influence revisited: Bloom. Mapping misreading. Gynocriticism and intertextuality. The return of the female author. The return to Bakhtin: feminism and postcolonialism -- 5. Postmodern conclusions. Intertextuality in the non-literary arts. Postmodernism and intertextuality. Postmodernism and the return of history. Intertextuality, hypertextuality and the World Wide Web. |