Table of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.Introduction: History and a new approach
1.1Defining intertextuality
1.1.1Bakhtin and Saussure
1.1.2Julia Kristeva
1.1.3Michel Riffaterre
1.1.4Gerard Genette
1.2A new approach to intertextuality
1.2.1Stylistics
1.2.2Cognitive poetics
1.2.3Reader response and cognitive poetics
1.3Previous attempts at operationalising intertextuality in non-literary disciplines
1.3.1Douglas Hartman
1.3.2Norman Fairclough
1.4Defining intertextuality: Narrative interrelation and intertextual reference
1.4.1Defining interrelation
Chapter 2.Forms and functions of intertextuality
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 (James 2011)
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
Chapter 3.Narrative interrelation framework: A cognitive account of intertextuality
3.1Introduction
3.2Defining a stylistic framework
3.2.1Applying a stylistic framework: Methodology
3.3Narrative interrelation framework: An overview
3.4Schema theory
3.5Narrative schemas
3.5.1A ‘mental archive’ of stories
3.6Specific and generic narrative schemas
3.6.1Narrative schemas and attention
3.7Points of narrative contact: A cline of visibility
3.8Spreading activation
3.9Degrees of narrative granularity
3.10Markedness
3.10.1Generic unmarked intertextual references
3.10.2Generic marked intertextual references
3.10.3Specific unmarked intertextual references
3.10.4Specific marked intertextual references
3.11Scope refinement
3.11.1Scope refinement by reducing narrative granularity
3.11.2Scope refinement by increasing visibility of point(s) of narrative contact
3.12Review
Chapter 4.Analysing ‘marked’ intertextual references
4.1Introduction
4.2Understanding marked intertextual references
4.3Constructing the ‘implied reader’ through intertextual reference
4.4Mind-modelling
4.5Marked references as epigraphs
4.6Readers’ responses to text-driven intertextual references
4.7Marked intertextual referencing in practice
Chapter 5.Analysing ‘unmarked’ intertextual references
5.1Introduction
5.2Understanding unmarked references
5.2.1Discerning unmarked references and personal interrelations
5.3Unmarked references and literary ‘expertise’
5.4Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution: A hierarchy of intertextual reference
5.5Dislocated references
5.6Unmarked intertextual referencing in practice
Chapter 6.Intertextuality, identity and characterisation: Readers
6.1Introduction
6.2Loaded questions
6.3Marked references and ‘cultural capital’
6.3.1Narrative knowledge and education
6.4Book shaming
6.4.1Book shaming: A loophole
6.5Readers and identity: An overview
Chapter 7.Intertextuality, identity and characterisation: Texts
7.1Introduction
7.2Deixis as intertextuality
7.3Intertextuality as deixis
7.4Intertextuality as characterisation
7.5Dummy narratives
7.5.1Back-formation of dummy narratives
7.5.2Dummy narratives and characterisation
7.5.3Dummy narratives and metalepsis
7.6Intertextuality and identity in texts: An overview
Chapter 8.Analysing intratextual references
8.1Boundaries of narrative
8.2Defining Intratextuality
8.3Analysing intratextual connections: It
8.3.1Six Phone Calls
8.4The second epidemic: ‘The unkindest cut of all’
8.5Interconnected King
Chapter 9.Intertextuality in practice: Looking forward
References
Index
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