Intertextuality : theories and practices

A collection of essays by American, British and Australian scholars which approaches this field of textual enquiry from perspectives as diverse as Marxism and psychoanalysis. Each essay examines an aspect of contemporary practice and proposes new ways forward for students and teachers. Title 1 Contents 3 Contributors 4 A note on vocabulary 6 1. Judith Still and Michael Worton - Introduction (1-44) 8 Notes 40 Bibliography to Introduction 47 2. John Frow - Intertextuality and Ontology (45-55) 52 Notes 62 3. Michael Riffaterre - Compulsory reader response: The intertextual drive (56- 63 Notes 84 4. Sean Hand - Missing you: Intertextuality, transference and the language of love (79-91) 86 Notes 97 5. Diana Knight - Roland Barthes: An intertextual figure (92-107) 99 Notes 112 6. Ann Jefferson - Autobiography as intertext: Barthes, Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet (108-129) 115 Notes 134 7. Roland François Lack - Intertextuality or influence: Kristeva, Bloom and the Poesies of Isidore Ducasse (130-142) 137 Notes 147 8. Ross Chambers - Alter ego: intertextuality, irony and the politics of reading (143- 150 Notes 165 9. Celia Britton - Fiction, fact and madness: intertextual relations among Gide's female characters (159-175) 166 Notes 182 10. Keith A. Reader - Litera ture/cinema/television: Intertextuality in Jean Renoir's Le Testament du docteur Cordelier (176-189) 183 Notes 195 Index 197