Jenny, Laurent
1982
The strategy of form
In French Literary Theory Today: A Reader
edited by Tzvetan Todorov
translated by R. Carter

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Definition-intertextuality:
Laurent Jenny characterises intertextuality in the following way: “it introduces a new way of reading which destroys the linearity of the text. Each intertextual reference is the occasion for an alternative: either one continues reading, taking it only as a segment like any other, integrated into the syntagmatic structure of the text, or else one turns to the source text, carrying out a sort of intellectual anamnesis where the intertextual reference appears like a paradigmatic element that has been displaced, deriving from a forgotten structure.”