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The relationship between texts — the way one literary work references, quotes, parodies, or builds upon another. The term was coined by Bulgarian-French literary theorist Julia Kristeva in the 1960s, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s earlier theories of dialogism. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (a rewriting of Jane Eyre), and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are classic examples of intertextuality.
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