intertextuality
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intertextuality noun
- The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.“When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.”
- The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.“When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.”
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metatextualitysubtextualitydialogicitycounterresponseanticritiquecountercritiquecountertextcounterexpositionendophorainterreferenceinterthinkingcounterthreatinterbeingcounterstoryparallel textantiphony
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