Intertextuality and Renaissance Texts

Description: Defines and anatomizes "intertextuality," and proceeds to examine aspects of Thomas More's "Utopia" in this light. Uses examples from Chaucer to help clarify the varieties of the concept: from NPT, Chauntecleer's Latin misquotation as an example of a "comic use of intertextuality which plays more than one level"; the repetition of "pite renneth soone in gentil herte" as internal intertextuality; in PF, reference to the French "note" as "non-verbal intertextuality"; use of academic language in non-academic contexts in MerT, ParsT, and elsewhere; etc.