Intertextuality (the | New Critical Idiom)

Intertextuality is shaped through various compositional strategies, as detailed by Allen and other scholars: INTERTEXTUALITY-The New Critical Idiom - Academia.edu

: Meaning does not lie "inside" a work to be extracted by a reader; it exists in the network of relations between the text and all other texts to which it refers. Intertextuality (The New Critical Idiom)

In his seminal book Intertextuality (The New Critical Idiom) , Graham Allen argues that no text possesses independent meaning. Instead, every work is a "tissue of quotations" woven from previous systems, codes, and traditions. Core Concepts and Origins and traditions. Core Concepts and Origins