Intertexuality in theory and practice教程.pdfVIP

ISSN 0258–0802. LITERATÛRA 2007 49(5) INTERTEXTUALITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Adolphe Haberer Emeritus Professor, University of Lyon 2 Intertextuality is a concept often associated What I will try to show in this lecture is that with postmodernism, more particularly with though the word for it had not yet been coined, that sphere of postmodernism where literature the workings of intertextuality were already encounters critical theory.1 In many respects, being explored by such modernists as T. S. Eliot and especially in the field of literature and and David Jones. In that respect also, there is poetics with which I am concerned, post- an undeniable continuity between modernism modernism can be viewed as a development and postmodernism, and I cannot imagine that of modernism which manifested itself during if we have truly entered a new age “beyond the first decades of the 20th century, in the postmodernism” we can do without the key years preceding and following the great concept of intertextuality to account for that fracture of the first World War. Modernism all-important dimension of our experience as was characterized by the loss of stable values, readers of literary texts, which we could call by the loss of belief in the possibility of an “the memory of literature”.2 objective truth and in the validity of totalizing ideologies, by the rejection of formal aesthetic * * * theories, the emphasis given to subjectivity, In the Preface to The Anathemata, first published to the discontinuous and the fragmentary, also half a century ago, Davi