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AMERICAN LITERATURE

Intertextuality In The Hours


Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author, but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text," she argues, "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com, Kristeva: Word, Dialogue, and Novel, 1966).
The Hours is a piece of art which breaks the barriers between reality and fiction, between the world of books and the world of film and between the world of reader and the book he is reading and it makes parallels between these worlds.
The Hours is a movie made from a screenplay that was based on a book that was also based on another book. And now you are reading a work based on subjective......

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