| Given the dialogic nature of language, the paradox of intertextuality is that repetition can involve semantic renewal and difference. |
| Does that mean that the door is wide open for any interpretation, constrained, as the postmodernists would have it, only by intertextuality? |
| My concept of intertextuality thus goes back to Bakhtin's dialogism and Barthes' text theory. |
| The fourth chapter describes the relations between irony and intertextuality. |
| This intertextuality helps blur the distinction between popular cultural texts and between the different roles media celebrities typically play. |
| It's the most awkward possible specimen for people interested, as I am, in the aesthetics of intertextuality and borrowing in art. |
