Intertekstualno

Intertekstualno refers to the intertextual relationships that connect texts across genres, media, and time. It describes how a work derives meaning not in isolation, but through its references, echoes, borrowings, transformations, and dialogues with other texts. Intertekstualnost highlights the idea that reading is an act of navigating a web of prior writings.

The concept is most closely associated with the French theorist Julia Kristeva, who popularized intertextuality in the 1960s. Kristeva built on Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of dialogism to argue that every text is a mosaic of quotations and that authors continually remake existing discourses. This view shifted emphasis from authorial originality to the productive tension between texts within a cultural field.

Intertekstualno operates through various mechanisms, including allusion, quotation, parody, pastiche, and adaptation. These practices may be intentional or unconscious and rely on the reader’s or viewer’s recognition of prior works. The effect is often to layer meanings, foreground genre conventions, or position a work within a broader cultural conversation.

In practice, intertekstualno appears across literature, film, music, and the arts. Classical and modern novels reference earlier epics or authors; films imitate or dialogue with other works; poetry revisits or reworks canonical lines; music samples or reinterprets themes from earlier melodies. The approach helps explain how works participate in evolving literary and cultural networks and how audiences negotiate meaning.

Critics note that intertekstuality can risk overreading or diminish claims of originality, and its analysis depends on cultural context and reader competence. Nonetheless, it remains a foundational lens for examining how texts continually converse with one another.