Influence and Intertextuality in Literary HistoryJay Clayton, Eric Rothstein This important collection explores and clarifies two of the most contested ideas in literary theory today, influence and intertextuality. The study of influence tends to center on major authors and canonical works, identifying prior documents as "sources" or "contexts" for a given author. Intertextuality, on the other hand, is a concept unconcerned with authors as individuals; it treats all texts as part of a network of discourse that includes culture, history, and social practices as well as other literary works. In thirteen essays drawing on the entire spectrum of English and American literary history, this volume considers the relationship between these two terms--their rivalry, their kinship, their range of uses. |
Contents
Part II | 29 |
Intertextuality and the Subject of ReadingWriting | 61 |
Diversity and Change in Literary Histories | 114 |
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