Intertextuality: Tropes and Genres

Abstract

With the concept of intertextuality literary criticism faced a new explanation of the relationships between the subject, language, literary text, and social and historical context. This concept tied into a common framework the treatment of phenomena that had previously seemed marginal (e.g., quotation, parody etc.). Furthermore, with the thesis that literatue is made from the other literature it pointed out the autoreferentiality of literary processes. The paper systematically synthesizes issues of literary intertextuality: the differnece between general intertextuality and citing, basic methods of intertextual presentation or, rather, referentiality, and tropes and genres of citing (from allusion to variation).