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. |
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... John Miles . " Beowulf and Traditional Narrative Song : The Potential and Limits of Comparison . " Old English Literature in Context : Ten Essays , ed . John D. Niles , 117-36 . Woodbridge , Suffolk : D. S. Brewer , 1980 . Foley , John ...
... John Wain and John Barth : The An- gry and the Accurate , " Massachusetts Review 1. 3 ( May 1960 ) : 586 . 2 David Morrell , John Barth : An Introduction ( University Park : Pennsylvania State UP , 1976 ) , 16 . 3 John Barth , The End ...
... John Edward Hardy , 54-70 . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1966 . MacKethan , Lucinda H. Introduction to Swallow Barn , by John Pendleton Ken- nedy . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State UP , 1986 . Mathews , Donald G. Religion in the Old South ...
Contents
Part II | 29 |
Intertextuality and the Subject of ReadingWriting | 61 |
Diversity and Change in Literary Histories | 114 |
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