The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781032086323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 402 str.

Scarlett Baron

Opis

This book traces intertextual theory’s core ideas and emblematic images to paradigm shifts in the fields of science, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and linguistics, focusing on the shaping roles of Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Saussure, and Bakhtin, and on their treatment at the hands of Kristeva, Barthes, and Foucault.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Darwin’s ‘universal acid’

2. Nietzsche: murdering authority, liberating interpretation

3. Freud and the riddle of creativity

4. Literary criticism and the dream of a ‘science of culture’: Saussurean linguistics, Russian Formalism, structuralism

5. Bakhtin: ‘the word in language is half someone else’s’

6. Kristeva and the birth of intertextuality

Conclusion

O autorze

Scarlett Baron is Associate Professor of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature at University College London.