Intertextuality in Practice.

Intro -- Intertextuality in Practice -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: History and a new approach -- 1.1 Defining intertextuality -- 1.1.1 Bakhtin and Saussure -- 1.1.2 Julia Kristeva -- 1.1.3 Michel Riffaterre -- 1.1.4 Gerard Genette -- 1.2 A new approach to intertextuality -- 1.2.1 Stylistics -- 1.2.2 Cognitive poetics -- 1.2.3 Reader response and cognitive poetics -- 1.3 Previous attempts at operationalising intertextuality in non-literary disciplines -- 1.3.1 Douglas Hartman -- 1.3.2 Norman Fairclough -- 1.4 Defining intertextuality: Narrative interrelation and intertextual reference -- 1.4.1 Defining interrelation -- 2. Forms and functions of intertextuality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Defining narrative -- 2.2.1 Typical features of a narrative -- 2.2.2 Fictional vs. non-fictional narratives -- 2.2.3 Granularity of 'narrative' -- 2.3 Exploring intertextuality in practice -- 2.4 Book reviews as reader response data -- 2.5 Text choice: Fifty Shades of Grey -- 2.6 Investigating intertextuality in practice: Method -- 2.6.1 Identifying intertextual references -- 2.7 Readers' intertextual references with 'Fifty Shades of Grey': An overview -- 2.7.1 Intertextuality in reader reviews: Analysis -- 2.8 Bases -- 2.9 The range of intertextual references in non-interactive booktalk -- 2.10 Text-driven intertextual references -- 2.11 Genre associations and narrative groupings -- Erotic fiction/erotica -- Romance -- Pornography -- Holiday reading -- Child writing -- 2.12 Intertextual references which assume common knowledge -- 2.12.1 Intertextual references as 'world builders' -- 2.12.2 Intertextual references as synecdoche -- 2.12.3 Intertextual references as simile and metaphor -- 2.13 Intertextuality as identifying similarity or difference.

2.13.1 Intertextual references as disanalogy -- 2.13.2 'Pure match' intertextual references -- 2.14 Intertextual references to non-fiction -- 2.14.1 Intertextual references to non-fictional narratives of others -- 2.14.2 Intertextual references to 'self-narratives' -- 2.15 Intertextuality and booktalk: Findings -- 3. Narrative interrelation framework: A cognitive account of intertextuality -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Defining a stylistic framework -- 3.2.1 Applying a stylistic framework: Methodology -- 3.3 Narrative interrelation framework: An overview -- 3.4 Schema theory -- 3.5 Narrative schemas -- 3.5.1 A 'mental archive' of stories -- 3.6 Specific and generic narrative schemas -- 3.6.1 Narrative schemas and attention -- 3.7 Points of narrative contact: A cline of visibility -- 3.8 Spreading activation -- 3.9 Degrees of narrative granularity -- 3.10 Markedness -- 3.10.1 Generic unmarked intertextual references -- 3.10.2 Generic marked intertextual references -- 3.10.3 Specific unmarked intertextual references -- 3.10.4 Specific marked intertextual references -- 3.11 Scope refinement -- 3.11.1 Scope refinement by reducing narrative granularity -- 3.11.2 Scope refinement by increasing visibility of point(s) of narrative contact -- 3.12 Review -- 4. Analysing 'marked' intertextual references -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Understanding marked intertextual references -- 4.3 Constructing the 'implied reader' through intertextual reference -- 4.4 Mind-modelling -- 4.5 Marked references as epigraphs -- 4.6 Readers' responses to text-driven intertextual references -- 4.7 Marked intertextual referencing in practice -- 5. Analysing 'unmarked' intertextual references -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Understanding unmarked references -- 5.2.1 Discerning unmarked references and personal interrelations -- 5.3 Unmarked references and literary 'expertise'.

5.4 'Animal Farm' and the Russian revolution: A hierarchy of intertextual reference -- 5.5 Dislocated references -- 5.6 Unmarked intertextual referencing in practice -- 6. Intertextuality, identity and characterisation: Readers -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Loaded questions -- 6.3 Marked references and 'cultural capital' -- 6.3.1 Narrative knowledge and education -- 6.4 Book shaming -- 6.4.1 Book shaming: A loophole -- 6.5 Readers and identity: An overview -- 7. Intertextuality, identity and characterisation: Texts -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Deixis as intertextuality -- 7.3 Intertextuality as deixis -- 7.4 Intertextuality as characterisation -- 7.5 Dummy narratives -- 7.5.1 Back-formation of dummy narratives -- 7.5.2 Dummy narratives and characterisation -- 7.5.3 Dummy narratives and metalepsis -- 7.6 Intertextuality and identity in texts: An overview -- 8. Analysing *intra*textual references -- 8.1 Boundaries of narrative -- 8.2 Defining intratextuality -- 8.3 Analysing intratextual connections: 'It' -- 8.3.1 Six Phone Calls -- 8.4 The second epidemic: 'The unkindest cut of all' -- 8.5 Interconnected King -- 9. Intertextuality in practice: Looking forward -- References -- Index.

Drawing on research from literary criticism, neuroscience, linguistics and sociology, this book proposes a cognitive stylistic approach, presenting the 'narrative interrelation framework' as a way of operationalising the concept of intertextuality to enable close practical analysis.

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