Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a relationship between two or more texts that quote from one another, allude to one another, or otherwise connect. In the work of Roland Barthes, intertextuality is the concept that the meaning of an artistic work does not reside in that work, but in the viewers. In the work of Julia Kristeva, intertextuality suggests the interdependence of texts, the continual deferment of meaning through and between texts.

See also

• Literary theory
• Post-structuralism
• Semiotics