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Intertextuality vs Intertext - What's the difference?

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Intertextuality is a related term of intertext.


As nouns the difference between intertextuality and intertext

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 intertext is a reference to one text within another.

intertextuality

Noun

(intertextualities)
  • The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
  • When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.
  • The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.
  • intertext

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reference to one text within another.