Intertextuality in theory and practice

Literatura, 2007, 49 (5). — p. 54-67.The aim of this article to show that though the word for it had not yet been coined, the workings of intertextuality were already being explored by such modernists as T. S. Eliot and David Jones. In that respect also, there is an undeniable continuity between modernism and postmodernism, and if we have truly entered a new age beyond postmodernism we can do without the key concept of intertextuality to account for that all-important dimension of our experience as readers of literary texts, which we could call the memory of literature