Intertexts of <em>Intertextuality</em>

Abstract

In The Birth of Intertextuality Scarlett Baron relates the notion of intertextuality back to elements in the revolutionary intellectual interventions of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud, as well as to the theories of Saussure and Bahktin. Highly critical of the nebulousness of the concept as presented in the work of Julia Kristeva and later adaptations, she marshals these impressive antecedents to argue for the radical character of the theory of intertextuality, which should be understood as more than a matter of texts reusing other texts.