ON INTERTEXTUALITY
The quotation
Maria Augusta Babo
Department of Communication Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portuguese
French |
This article attempts to consider the quotation as an archaic practice of repetition and, starting from there, questions intertextuality as an act of putting writing and reading in perspective.
Writing – seen as a work of rewriting, that is, absorption and transformation of texts – is based on various modalities of transposition of already existing texts. The quotation is one of these modalities, just as plagiarism, commentary, parody or the poetic text; they all indicate specific relationships of the subject of enunciation with the expressed as well as processes of determinate intertextual significance. |
3 Textualities June 1986