ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Intertextuality is the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text.

Detailed explanation-2: -Intertextuality is when a text implicitly or explicitly refers to another text, by using distinctive, common or recognisable elements of the referenced text. An implicit reference is when the composer alludes to another text through ideas, symbols, genre or style.

Detailed explanation-3: -the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting. There’s an ocean of difference between the way people speak English in the US vs. the UK.

Detailed explanation-4: -The concept of intertextuality is a literary theory stating all works of literature are a derivation or have been influenced by a previous work of literature.

Detailed explanation-5: -Allusion-This literary device involves directly referring to something else, often another literary text. Parody-When one piece of writing uses many of the same elements of another but does it in a new and funny way, this is an example of parody. More items