intertextuality

About 0.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.

   When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.

2. noun The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.

Similar words

metatextuality subtextuality dialogicity counterresponse anticritique countercritique countertext counterexposition endophora interreference

Often followed by

and in of is as that with to between

Word family

intertextual intertextualities intertextually