Intertextuality

The concept of intertextuality, born out of post-structuralist studies, has proven useful in defining the genesis of many works. Each text is always an intertext. As such, it reproduces, transforms, connects, or subverts other texts.
The essays which are collected here describe intertextual exchanges which are constitutive of literary masterpieces, posters, and murals.
These exchanges relate memories and present events, diverse ideologies, words and images, working together to create new meanings, remoulding and associating quotations from the known texts. They exalt the role of the reader as the interpreter and the creator of the text as much as is the writer. For this reason, intertextuality also suggests didactic strategies, which locate students at the centre of learning activities.

Contributors: A. Cadoni, C. Cao, O. Denti, M. Domenichelli, M.G. Dongu, J. Douthwaite, L. Fodde, E. Fois, M. Giordano, F. Iuliano, I. Ledda, E. Mariani, M.A. Marongiu, G. Mazzon, G. Milia, A. Piga, A. Pisci, I.E. Putzu, D.F. Virdis.

Maria Grazia Dongu is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cagliari. Her main research fields are Early Modern Theatre, Travel Literature and Life Writing.

Luisanna Fodde is a Full Professor of English Language at the University of Cagliari. She has written on American, Afro-American English, Spanglish and Global English.

Fiorenzo Iuliano teaches American Literature at the University of Cagliari. He has published on US modernism, US literature and culture of the late-20th century, and literary theory.

Claudia Cao is a contract lecturer of English Literature at the University of Cagliari. She has written on rewritings and family novels.