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MENTAL MODEL · M1456

Intertextuality

Intertextuality
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-28

CORE DEFINITION

Intertextuality refers to the way a text's meaning is shaped by other texts. Authors borrow and transform other writings into their creations, or readers reference other texts while reading. Since the term was coined by post-structuralist scholar Julia Kristeva in 1966, it has been borrowed and transformed many times. Critic William Irwin said, "The term has been used and abused almost as much as it has been used. From faithful adherence to Kristeva's original meaning to merely using it as a fashionable term for 'allusion' and 'influence'."

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Intertextuality refers to the way a text's meaning is shaped by other texts. Authors borrow and transform other writings into their creations, or readers reference other texts while reading. Since the term was coined by post-structuralist scholar Julia Kristeva in 1966, it has been borrowed and transformed many times. Critic William Irwin said, "The term has been used and abused almost as much as it has been used. From faithful adherence to Kristeva's original meaning to merely using it as a fashionable term for 'allusion' and 'influence'."

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Textual meaning is not closed and self-sufficient, but arises from its network of relationships with other texts; readers interpret new texts with their existing textual memories, and new works constantly quote, parody, and reconstruct old ones. Any 'original' is a recombination and recontextualization of prior texts.

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