Transtextuality is defined as the "textual transcendence of the
text
Text may refer to:
Written word
* Text (literary theory), any object that can be read, including:
**Religious text, a writing that a religious tradition considers to be sacred
**Text, a verse or passage from scripture used in expository preachin ...
". According to
Gérard Genette
Gérard Genette (7 June 1930 – 11 May 2018) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of ''bricolage ...
transtextuality is "all that sets the text in relationship, whether obvious or concealed, with other texts" and it "covers all aspects of a particular text".
[
Genette, Gérard. The architext: an introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992: 83-84] Genette described transtextuality as a "more inclusive term" than
intertextuality
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody,Gerard Genette (1997) ''Paratexts'p.18/ref>H ...
.
[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:DiqcS2irWZ8J:www.leidykla.vu.lt/fileadmin/Literatura/49-5/str17.pdf+transtextuality&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgCxuUyOfM1Gr8ooQzawNPApLXCmWOVcsXUhZ_1IUB2EqkhccBeiz87cZGuEtKLkM4X43uMnnn5ngrnoq0EyhYvi8QSLFIGb7QjmCCLrKpSH_PLoxNRdSKdjkj6xiViYoeiEVIY&sig=AHIEtbS5uv1WprtZ1QYdvHZIJi3CToJOrA ]
Subtypes
Genette provided five subtypes of transtextuality, namely: intertextuality,
paratextuality,
architextuality,
metatextuality Metatextuality is a form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical commentary on itself or another text. This concept is related to Gérard Genette's concept of transtextuality in which a text changes or expands on the content of an ...
, and
hypertextuality
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically ac ...
(also known as
hypotext Hypotext is an earlier text which serves as the source of a subsequent piece of literature, or hypertext. For example, Homer's Odyssey could be regarded as the hypotext for James Joyce's ''Ulysses''.
The word was defined by the French theorist GÃ ...
uality).
[
]
Description
The following are the descriptions for the five subtypes of transtextuality:
*Intertextuality could be in the form of quotation, plagiarism, or allusion.
*Paratextuality is the relation between one text and its paratext that surrounds the main body of the text. Examples are titles, headings, and prefaces.
*Architextuality is the designation of a text as a part of a genre or genres
*Metatextuality is the explicit or implicit critical commentary of one text on another text
*Hypotextuality or hypertextuality is the relation between a text and a preceding 'hypotext' – a text or genre on which it is based but which it transforms, modifies, elaborates or extends. Examples are parody, spoof, sequel, and translation. In information technology, hypertextuality is a text that takes the reader directly to other texts.[
]
See also
* Literary theory
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, mo ...
* Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critique ...
* Semiotics
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...
* Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel ''The Name of the ...
* Meta
Meta (from the Greek μετά, '' meta'', meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix meaning "more comprehensive" or "transcending".
In modern nomenclature, ''meta''- can also serve as a prefix meaning self-referential, as a field of study or ende ...
* Transmedia storytelling
Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling) is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies.
From a producti ...
*Institute for Transtextual and Transcultural Studies The IETT, the Institute for Transtextual and Transcultural Studies (french: Institut d'études transtextuelles et transculturelles, link=no (IETT)), is a publicly funded research institute based in Lyon, France, and attached to the Jean Moulin Unive ...
References
Literary concepts
Post-structuralism
Transmediation
{{lit-stub