Found Drowned (1848–50) by George Frederick Watts
Bridgeman Art Library
AQA (A) Literature (Victorian literature); all comparative modules
I sometimes think that as readers we spend so much time looking for what is unique and original about a writer’s approach that it is possible to overlook the fact that all texts are written, received and understood within a framework of other texts. The French literary theorist Julia Kristeva coined the term ‘intertextuality’ in 1966 to describe the complex connections that exist between texts, arguing that every time we read something new we routinely use our existing reading knowledge and practices to make meanings as we do so.
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