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Metatextuality
Form of intertextual discourse
Metatextuality is a form of intertextual discourse in which a text makes critical commentary on itself or on another text. This concept is related to Gérard Genette's concept of transtextuality in which a text changes or expands on the content of another text.
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Metatextuality is a form of intertextual discourse in which a text makes critical commentary on itself or on another text. This concept is related to Gérard Genette's concept of transtextuality in which a text changes or expands on the content of another text.
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Transtextuality
Literary concept developed by Gérard Genette describing all relationships that bring a text into relation with other texts, encompassing five types: intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, hypertextuality, and architextuality
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Intertextuality
Shaping of a text's meaning by another text
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Gérard Genette
French literary theorist (1930–2018)
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Metaphor
Figure of speech in which one thing is asserted to be another when it is in fact not so, based on properties of the latter that apply to the former, pointing to similarity
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Literary translation
Translation of literary works (novels, short stories, plays, poems, etc.)