Intertextuality
What Intertextuality means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Exploring how texts illuminate and connect with each other, analysing how one text illuminates the meaning, context, or techniques of another within the grouping.
The ways in which texts relate to one another and to literary traditions, movements and genres.
Topics that use Intertextuality
- 2b. Content of A Level in English Literature (H472) (OCR A-Level)
- Literature post-1900 (Component 03) - Literary texts requirements: (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Academic Progression
- Advanced Literary Studies
- Breadth of reading
- Close reading
- Comparative analysis
- Component 01 (Drama and poetry pre-1900)
- Component 02 (Comparative and contextual study)
- Contextual influence
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