Department of German Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. As Helen Regueiro Elan (Elan, 1993: p. 621) observes, “In the absence of an origin that would guarantee presence, meaning, and ...

Shahaduz Zaman uses dramatic descriptions to get into the story. The narrative of the surroundings turns the time and place of the story into a stage—in the context of the vast universe, the world ...

This article analyzes the manifestations of intertextuality and its pragmatic implications in some novels by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. It answers in particular the following questions: what ...

Intertextuality is defined by Maingueneau (1976) as "a set of relationships with other texts manifesting within a text." Sollers (1968), meanwhile, defines intertextuality as "every text situates ...

From the mid-1960s in Japan, parody began to be more widely used as a means of expression and entertainment, becoming particularly popular in magazines and print publications. By the '70s, the term ...