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  Julia Kristeva and Intertextuality Julia Kristeva is a French-Bulgarian philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, and feminist thinker. She is best known in literary theory for introducing the term “intertextuality” in the 1960s. What is Intertextuality? Intertextuality means that a text is not completely independent or original. Every text is connected to, influenced by, or in conversation with other texts. When writers create a new work, they may consciously or unconsciously use ideas, themes, styles, quotations, myths, or references from earlier works. Kristeva developed this idea from the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin , especially his concepts of dialogism and heteroglossia . According to Kristeva, a literary text is a “mosaic of quotations” because it contains traces of other texts. Julia Kristeva – Major Works Year Work Main exam concept 1966 “Word, Dialogue and Novel” Intertextuality, Bakhtin, dialogism 1967 “The Bounded Text” ...