Text, context, intertext∗
Year: 1985
Type: article
Abstract: Summary The etymology of the terms text, context and intertext is traced as an introduction to an exposition of their linguistic and poetic post‐structural usage. In this respect some problems are indicated. Finally the possible application of deconstruction criticism in teaching pre‐graduate students is shown. The post‐structuralist view of the text as process or productive activity is found to be compatible with historical criticism. Since historical contexts are inexhaustible and of necessity textualised, the methodological field of the intertext is advanced as the site of interaction between text, context (genetic and citational), and the critic's strategic re‐citing of the text.
Source: Journal of Literary Studies
Author: E.R. Harty
Institution: University of South Africa
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $388
OpenAlex ID: W2067097115