When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.
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Intertextuality
Synonyms for "intertextuality"
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Translations
10 translations across 6 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- تَعالُق النَّصِّي noun (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written)
- تَعالُق النَّصِّي noun (references among texts)
- تَنَاص noun (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written)
- تَنَاص noun (references among texts)
Danish
1 entries- intertekstualitet noun (references among texts)
French
1 entries- intertextualité noun (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written)
German
1 entries- Intertextualität noun (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written)
Polish
2 entries- intertekstualność noun (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written)
- intertekstualność noun (references among texts)
Spanish
1 entries- intertextualidad noun (the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written)
Sample sentences
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All of these issues—subjectivity, intertextuality, reference, ideology—underlie the problematized relations between history and fiction in postmodernism.
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From the translator's point of view, therefore, both types of intertextuality—or simply all kinds of intertextuality—are important, since the translator, ideally, ought not to deprive the reader of even a smallest chunk of the intertextual load of the original.
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