textuality

• intertextuality is the shaping of text meaning by another
• a reader response approach to literature focuses on how readers interpret texts, rather than what they mean.
• types of intertextuality:

  • obligatory - writer deliberately makes an association between 2+ texts
  • relies on prior reading context
  • optional - there is a possibility that texts are related but you have lack of knowledge so you cannot prove it yet
  • accidental - unexpectedly related to your schema
• forms of intertextuality

  • book in a book - stating reference to title
  • other text in book - reference media/social text
• functions of textuality

  • comparison - putting 2 texts together
  • dialogue - invokes conversation
  • destabilization - original understanding can be changed as you read
• effects of intertextuality

  • transformation of prior text
  • rewriting/rephrasing
  • transformation of primary book
  • evaluations
  • reinterpretation of both
  • re-reading of primary book and intertext
• hypertextuality - imitation of hypotext in different forms
• hypotext - source of subsequent piece of literature