Intertext

• Intertext

  • a process of text development that merges two more processes such as imitation and creation in doing a text.
• Intertextuality

  • has its roots in the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913).
  • the term itself was first used by Bulgarian-French philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva in the 1960s.
• Methods of Intertextuality

  1. Retelling
  2. Quotation
  3. Allusion
  4. Pastiche
• Retelling

  • It is the restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative
• Quotation

  • It is the method of directly lifting the exact statements or set of words from a text another author has made.
• Allusion

  • In this method, a writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of quotation.
• Pastiche

  • It is a text developed in a way that it copies the style or other properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a parody.