| Pub. Date | : March, 2022 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJES160322 |
| Author Name | :Sonali Das |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 06 |
Intertextuality is a literary device that establishes an interrelationship between texts through intertextual figures like allusion, quotation, pastiche, translation and parody. The term is derived from the Latin word 'intertexto' and was popularized by Kristeva in the late 1960s. It signifies how one text is shaped by other texts. The study of intertextuality has come a long way from its theoretical roots in Saussure's semiology laid out in his Course in General Linguistics in 1916 to the actual inception of the concept by Kristeva in 1966 and on to Genette in 1982, which made the initial theoretical concept an applicable method. Genette has defined 'intertextuality' as the presence of one text in another. This paper makes a humble attempt to make an intertextual reading of Ian McEwan's Nutshell with Shakespeare's Hamlet. Nutshell is a retelling of Hamlet and shares its theme of betrayal, murder and revenge, but here the protagonist is an unborn fetus.