The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity

This book traces intertextual theorys 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.