Intertextuality vs Allusion - What's the difference?
intertextuality | allusion |
The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.
An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication.
As nouns the difference between intertextuality and allusion
is that intertextuality is the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit while allusion is allusion.intertextuality
English
(wikipedia intertextuality)Noun
(intertextualities)- When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.