This third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter looking at intermediality, and how the study of intertextuality has changed over the last ten years. It offers a fascinating and useful approach to all aspects of literary studies, especially those dealing with adaptation, media, or comparative studies.
This third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter looking at intermediality, and how the study of intertextuality has changed over the last ten years. It offers a fascinating and useful approach to all aspects of literary studies, especially those dealing with adaptation, media, or comparative studies.
Graham Allen is Professor of English at University College, Cork, Ireland. He is author of Harold Bloom: A Poetics of Conflict, Roland Barthes (Routledge Critical Thinkers), Mary Shelley, The Reader's Guide to 'Frankenstein', and editor of The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom (with Roy Sellers) and Reading on Audience and Textual Materiality (with Carrie Griffin and Mary O'Connell).
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Introduction 1. Origins: Saussure Bakhtin Kristeva 2. The Text Unbound: Barthes 3. Structuralist Approaches: Genette and Riffaterre 4. Situated Readers: Bloom Feminism Postcolonialism 5. Postmodern Conclusions 6. Intertextuality Today 7. 20 Years On