A World of Others' Words
Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: August 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781405116046
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Sociology - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Communication in anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Intertexuality; Anthropology - Cultural; Education / Multicultural Education; Anthropology - General; Communication in folklore; Cross-cultural orientation; Intertextuality; Oral tradition
First sentence: The relationship of texts to other texts has been an abiding concern of literary theorists since classical antiquity, certainly since Aristotle speculated on the potential shape of tragedies based on the Iliad and the Odyssey as against other relations of the fall of Troy and its aftermath (Poetics xviii.4, xxiii).