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- noun A reference to one
text within another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Sceptic serves to anchor this "intertext" including
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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Ode, which Chandler argues is a key intertext for the later ode.
Article Abstracts 2008
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And look, here is another by intertext, looking directly at us!
Crow on roof asakiyume 2008
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Women's mastery of fashion and the material intertext of dress and body signaled the extent and extension of that value.
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006
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Thanks to oursin, I now have a Vox space, as intertext I'm so unoriginal.
Busy busy busy, tired tired tired intertext 2006
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This dramatic use of intertext suggests that Disraeli, in searching for a narrative within whose terms Jewish suffering can be refigured as heroic, finds only the Christian Passion.
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It is epideictic poetry, I submit, that accommodates and accounts for the hubristic heights and unsounded depths of an intertext made up of Childe Harold, Manfred, "The Abencerrage,"
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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In its most brilliant intertextual flourish, The Sopranos as a commercial enterprise has spun off a “commodity intertext” (as such is now sometimes called) entitled The Sopranos: A Family History.
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Lisa Steinman has pointed out the significance of the 1799 poem, "A Poet's Epitaph" to the Alastor volume, and this intertext provides important clues about the indirect relation of poetry to "truth" in terms of Shelley's conception of his own work.
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The existentialist Which brings us to the most explicit intertext that Kelly introduces into
k-punk mark 2010
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