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Early Modern Intertextuality

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Authors:
  1. Sarah Carter

    1. English, Communications and Philosophy, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

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  • Suggests that the theory of intertextuality can be applied to early modern literature in a variety of specific ways that surpass simple identification of classical references yet are historically specific
  • Argues that certain central aspects of early modern creative writing constitute a valid application of intertextual theory
  • Argues that an intertextual approach to early modern creative writing can provide both a materialist analytical method and illuminating readings

Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Early Modern Intertextuality: Post-structuralism, Narrative Systems, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    • Sarah Carter
    Pages 1-20

  3. Allegory, Structuralism, and Intertextuality: Sir Francis Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients

    • Sarah Carter
    Pages 21-40

  4. Folklore as a Narrative System: Old Wives, Seasonal Cycles, and Culture Wars

    • Sarah Carter
    Pages 41-63

  5. Parody and Intertextuality: The Ovidian Epyllia

    • Sarah Carter
    Pages 65-83

  6. Intertextuality and Satire: Ben Jonson’s Poetaster

    • Sarah Carter
    Pages 85-105

  7. Text, Intertext, Hypertext?

    • Sarah Carter
    Pages 107-114

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 115-118
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About this book

This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised understanding of intertextuality, as that outlined by Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, is more productive than an interpretation which merely identifies ‘source’ texts. The book analyses several key early modern texts through this lens, arguing that the period’s conscious focus on and prioritisation of the creative imitation of classical and contemporary European texts makes it a particularly fertile era for intertextual reading. This analysis includes discussion of early modern creative writers’ utilisation of classical mythology, allegory, folklore, parody, and satire, in works by William Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Beaumont, and Ben Jonson, and foregrounds how meaning is created and conveyed by the interplay of texts and the movement between narrative systems. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of early modern literature, as well as early modern scholars.   

Authors and Affiliations

  • English, Communications and Philosophy, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Sarah Carter

About the author

Sarah Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK, teaching predominantly in early modern literature and gender/sexuality. Previous research includes the exploration of the reception of Ovid in the period which produced several articles and a monograph, Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature (2011). 

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