Influence, intertextuality: Some sources for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



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Last updated 15 September 2007

Allen, Graham. Intertextuality. London: Routledge, 2000.

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Bazerman, Charles. "Intertextuality: How Texts Rely on Other Texts." What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Ed. Charles Bazerman and Paul A. Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. 83-96.

Bazerman, Charles, and Paul A. Prior, eds. What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

Beach, Christopher. ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. U California P, 1992.

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Birch, David. "'Working Effects with Words'ÑWhose Words?: Stylistics and Reader Intertextuality." Language, Discourse and Literature. Ed. R. Carter and P. Simpson. Routledge, 1989. Rpt. The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jacobson to the Present. Ed. Jean Jacques Weber. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 206-23.

Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.

Bowman, Frank Paul. French Romanticism: Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Readings. Johns Hopkins UP.

Brady, Jennifer, et al. Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers. Ed. Earl Miner and Jennifer Brady. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Brown, Dennis. Intertextual Dynamics within the Literary GroupÑJoyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot: The Men of 1914. New York: St. Martin's P, 1991, 1990.

Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage, Celia Thompson, and Alastair Pennycook. "Beyond Plagiarism: Transgressive and Nontransgressive Intertextuality." Journal of Language, Identity, and Education 3 (2004): 171Ð194.

Clayton, Jay, and Eric Rothstein, eds. Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. Madison: U Wisconsin P, 1991.

Fairclough, Norman. Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.

Fairclough, Norman. "Multiliteracies and Language: Orders of Discourse and Intertextuality." Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. Ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. New York: Routledge, 2000. 162-181.

Friedman, Susan Stanford. "Weavings: Intertextuality and the (Re)Birth of the Author." Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. Eds. Jay Clayton and Eric Rothstein. Madison: U Wisconsin P, 1991. 146-80.

Gallop, Jane. "Precursor Critics and the Anxiety of Influence." Profession 2003 [Modern Language Association]: 105-109.

Genette, Gerard. The Architext. Trans. Jane Lewin. Berkeley: U California P, 1992.

Genette, Gerard. Palimpsests. Trans. Channa Newman and Calude Doubinsky. Lincoln: U Nebraska P, 1997.

Genette, Gerard. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Trans. Jane Lewin. Cambridge UP, 1997.

George, Diana, and Diane Shoos. "Dropping Bread Crumbs in the Intertextual Forest: Critical Literacy in a Postmodern Age." Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1999. 115-128.

Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts. Logan: Utah State UP, 2006.

Harris, P., Tresize, J. and Winser, W.N. "Is the Story on My Face? Intertextual Conflicts during Teacher-Class Interactions Around Texts in Early Grade Classrooms." Research in the Teaching of English 37 (2002): 9-54.

Harris, P., Tresize, J. and Winser, W.N. "Where is the Story?: Intertextual Reflections on Literacy Research and Practices in the Early School Years." Research in the Teaching of English 38 (2004): 250-9.

Hayhoe, George F. "Citation, Citation, Citation." Technical Communication 52.1 (2005): 7-8.

Helmers, Marguerite, ed. Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classrooms. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

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Kramer, David Bruce. The Imperial Dryden: The Poetics of Appropriation in Seventeenth-Century England. Athens: U Georgia P, 1994.

Lethem, Jonathan. "The Ecstasy of Influence." Harper's Feb. 2007: 59-71.

Mumford, Lewis. The Golden Day: A Study in American Experience and Culture. New York: Boni and ALiveright, 1926.

Nielsen, Aldon Lynn. Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994.

O'Donnell, Patrick, and Robert Con Davis, eds. Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Johns Hopkins UP.

Paretti, Marie C. "Intertextuality, Genre, and Beginning Writers: Mining Your Own Texts." Teaching Academic Literacy: The Uses of Teacher-Research in Developing a Writing Program. Ed. Katherine L. Weese, Stephen L. Fox, and Stuart Greene. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999. 119-134.

Porter, James E. "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community." Rhetoric Review 5 (1986): 34-47.

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Still, Judith M. "Language as Hospitality: Revisiting Intertextuality as Monolingualism of the Other." Paragraph 27.1 (March 2004): 113-127.

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Worton, Michael and Judith Still, eds. Intertextuality: Theories and Practices. New York: St. Martin's P, 1990.