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Article: A Life in the Theater.(Ingmar Bergman's 'After the Rehearsal')
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Intertextuality in Ingmar Bergman's Efter repetitionen
EVER SINCE Julia Kristeva coined the term intertextuality in 1966, it has been widely used but as often abused when employed without precise clarification to designate something other than what she had in mind. For Kristeva every text is potentially an intertext, "the site of an intersection of numberless other texts, including those which will be written in the future" (Abrams 285). I, however, shall here use the term in another and at once both wider and narrower sense. Intertext here denotes an element in a text or a performance, that is closely related -- formally and/or thematically -- to an element that ...