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Intertextuality in Practice
Jessica Mason
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 33] 2019
► pp. 25–60

Chapter 2
Forms and functions of intertextuality

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2Defining narrative
    • 2.2.1Typical features of a narrative
    • 2.2.2Fictional vs. non-fictional narratives
    • 2.2.3Granularity of ‘narrative’
  • 2.3Exploring intertextuality in practice
  • 2.4Book reviews as reader response data
  • 2.5Text choice: Fifty Shades of Grey
  • 2.6Investigating intertextuality in practice: Method
    • 2.6.1Identifying intertextual references
  • 2.7Readers’ intertextual references with Fifty Shades of Grey: An overview
    • 2.7.1Intertextuality in reader reviews: Analysis
  • 2.8Bases
  • 2.9The range of intertextual references in non-interactive booktalk
  • 2.10Text-driven intertextual references
  • 2.11Genre associations and narrative groupings
  • 2.12Intertextual references which assume common knowledge
    • 2.12.1Intertextual references as ‘world builders’
    • 2.12.2Intertextual references as synecdoche
    • 2.12.3Intertextual references as simile and metaphor
  • 2.13Intertextuality as identifying similarity or difference
    • 2.13.1Intertextual references as disanalogy
    • 2.13.2‘Pure match’ intertextual references
  • 2.14Intertextual references to non-fiction
    • 2.14.1Intertextual references to non-fictional narratives of others
    • 2.14.2Intertextual references to ‘self-narratives’
  • 2.15Intertextuality and booktalk: Findings