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Against Intertextuality
- Philosophy and Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 2, October 2004
- pp. 227-242
- 10.1353/phl.2004.0030
- Article
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Julia Kristeva coined the term intertextuality in 1966, and since that time intertextuality has come to have almost as many meanings as users. No small task, I clarify what intertextuality means for Kristeva and her mentor/colleague, Roland Barthes before criticizing their concept of intertextuality and its application in interpretation. Because no rational and coherent concept of intertextuality is offered by Kristeva, Barthes, or their Epigoni, I conclude that intertextuality should be stricken from the lexicon of sincere and intelligent humanists.