The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity - Paperback

by Scarlett Baron (Author)

This book traces intertextual theory's core ideas and emblematic images to paradigm shifts in the fields of science, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and linguistics, focusing on the shaping roles of Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Saussure, and Bakhtin, and on their treatment at the hands of Kristeva, Barthes, and Foucault.

Author Biography

Scarlett Baron is Associate Professor of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature at University College London.