A World of Others' Words
Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: August 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781405116053
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Intertexuality; Communication in folklore; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology - General; Sociology; Oral tradition; Anthropology - Cultural; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Education / Multicultural Education; Communication in anthropology; Cross-cultural orientation; Intertextuality
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).