intertextualadj.

1879 Proc. Soc. Biblical Archaeol. 1 14 This code is declared to be the identical copy which was written by Abishua, the great grandson of Aaron the High Priest, as is attested by the tashkil or intertextual chronogram.

1907 C. Davenport Miniatures Anc. & Mod. i. 8 The earliest miniature paintings that exist are probably the intertextual pictures which occur on cloth and on ancient Egyptian papyri, made about 2000 B.C.

1966 National Libr. Wales Jrnl. 14 487 The glosses for the prose passages are intertextual, while those for all but two of the verses are marginal.

2004 L.-A. K. Breuch Virtual Peer Rev. iv. 95 The word-processing programs they were using allowed them to enter intertextual comments that were a different color.

1904 R. R. Ottley Bk. Isaiah according to Septuagint Introd. p. xxix The provisional conclusion is, that where lxx. and M.T. differ in long passages, in arrangement, and in subject-matter, the question ceases to be one of intertextual criticism.

1920 R. R. Ottley Handbk. Septuagint i. 14 Where it is a question, not merely of MSS. of one book, but involving different books, different versions of a book, or an original book and one or more translations of it, I have ventured to call it Intertextual Criticism.

1936 G. Hofstrand (title) The seege of Troye. A study of the intertextual relations of the Middle English romance the ‘Seege or Batayle of Troye’.

1973 Lang. & Lang. Behavior Abstr. 7 856 Because certain texts make use of other texts, the problem of inter-textual and intra-textual relations is considered.

1974 Romanic Rev. Nov. 65 280 The poem negativizes this intertextual definition of a poem in yet another way: even a prose poem is supposed..to be polished and complete..whereas this poem is made to look like a preparatory sketch.

1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction i. 32 A structuralist pursuit of codes leads critics to treat the work as an intertextual construct—a product of various cultural discourses on which it relies for its intelligibility—and thus consolidates the central role of the reader as a centering role.

1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 1279/4 Such a method gives the author abundant opportunity for intertextual slides... He illuminates Webster by Oscar Wilde.

1991 Greece & Rome 38 82 A reviewer familiar with the methods of Hellenistic poets will be more sympathetic than most to the idea of inter-textual allusion; but all too often G. appears to be striving too hard to create order out of verbal echoes from distant parts of the Homeric poems.

2013 A. T. Ngunga Messianism in Old Greek of Isaiah i. 33 The phenomenon of intertextuality, which can be defined basically as the interrelationships between two or more texts, insists on an intertextual analysis of these texts.

1905 W. G. Holmes Age Justinian & Theodora i. 24 The Bonn Codinus gives intertextually all the passages of the anonymous Patria which differ, as well as an appendix of anonymous archaeological tracts.

1976 Oriens Extremus 23 ii. 165 In order to incorporate Liu's arguments,..a translation of his postface is provided (again such commentary and notes essential for a understanding of the translation are inserted inter-textually).

1985 N.Y. Times 17 Mar. vii. 19/1 They proclaim the existence of a black literature connected not so strongly by a common black culture or struggle as by images and techniques found from book to book (‘intertextually’).

1987 Nation 15 Aug. 136/3 These later images—vertical, even square—have become more intertextually implicated in webworks of art-historical allusion.

2013 J. Barton in K. Dell & W. Kynes Reading Job Intertextually 4 The Biblical text has long been treated ‘intertextually’ even though the term is modern.