The poetics of intertextuality proposed in this book, based mainly on semiotics, elucidates factors determining the socio-historically elusive border between ge

This collection explores and clarifies two of the most contested ideas in literary theory - influence and intertextuality. The study of influence tends to centr

The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have

With essays by 13 leading scholars, this collection establishes the grounds for a new kind of poetics that considers the poetry book itself -- the concept and t

No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has b