intertextual

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It is sure-handed, barocque, intertextual, complex, interesting, funny, sad, tragic, etc.

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  • & Max†™ games are as funny as any TV sitcom†¦ in the new ` Simpsons†™ game, you go around collecting ` platform game cliches†™ - such as “The Double-Jump†- it†™ s as wittily intertextual and self-reflexive as any Italo Calvino novel†¦ ` Myst†™ was like Shakespeare for the multimedia masses. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The truth of that is obvious, despite the many clear cases of derivation and intertextual engagement. —  Stabroek News
  • Jeanette Winterson's debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), is one of the most notable postmodern rewritings of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) .1 Winterson acknowledges her debt to Brontë on the novel's first page, and throughout, manifold intertextual links are obvious. —  BrontëBlog
  • DeForge is clearly playing up the intertextual borrowings from role-playing games. —  COMIXTALK
  • So we have this swirling set of independent aesthetic entities which nevertheless have tenuous intertextual links between them. —  Notes From The Geek Show
 

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