Intertextuality vs Parody - What's the difference?
intertextuality | parody |
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.
A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
* Macaulay
(archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
To make a parody of something.
As nouns the difference between intertextuality and parody
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 parody is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.As a verb parody is
to make a parody of something.intertextuality
English
(wikipedia intertextuality)Noun
(intertextualities)- When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.
parody
English
(wikipedia parody)Noun
(parodies)- The lively parody which he wrote was received with great applause.
Verb
(en-verb)- The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.