How to Create Literary References In Your Story With Intertextuality

Carmen Paczka
5 min readAug 28, 2021

In case you wonder how authors relate their work to other authors and great characters.

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When we are reading a book there are times we come across with some part that rings a bell. Either a name or a phrase that comes to our mind. That is what we call intertextuality, term that was first coined by the author Julia Kristeva and later used by critics…

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Carmen Paczka

Bachelor's degree in Modern Literature. Lives in Mexico. Loves books and coffee.