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intertextual Definition

inter·tex·tual (in′tər teks′c̸ho̵̅o̅ əl)

adjective

of or having to do with the links between one literary work and another or others, as those formed by allusions

intertextual Related Forms
in′ter·tex′·tu·al′·ity (-c̸ho̵̅o̅ al′ə tē) noun
intertextual Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • reference: Brian de Palma's Carrie is a film which makes intertextual references at a number of levels to Hitchcock's Psycho.
  • relationship: Ability to recognize the importance of genre in analyzing literary texts and to locate and analyze intertextual relationships among those texts.
  • relation: Texts, after they have been produced, have life of their own in " textual time " and in " intertextual relations " .
  • connection: A survey of scholarship on the pneumatology of the Apocalypse is followed by a study of intertextual connections.
  • link: The course will explore their intertextual links, as well the reality of their representation of Roman society and mores.