Literature as Dialogue

Each century has its own dream - text: The Tempest for the seventeenth century; Robinson Cruse for the eighteenth century; Jane Eyre for the nineteenth century; Heart of Darkness for the turn of the twentieth century. Such texts serve as pre-texts to other texts. So there will be a relation between hypertext and hypotext called by the contemporary literary theorists as 'Intertextuality'. "Intertextuality" has different meanings. To a person uninitiated to literature the word "intertextuality" could very well mean 'a copy' or 'an imitation' of a text, or even a relational resemblance between two texts. To a beginner in the field of literary theory "intertextuality" may mean recognizable "signs" from one text that are reproduced by another, in the process undergoing a transformation. To someone advanced in the study of literary theory "intertextuality" begins to assume a deeper thrust and a dawning realization where no text is original.

Autorentext

Ali Hadi Mulla, an assistant lecturer, at the Ministry of Education,AL Qadissiya, Iraq.Mr Ali is specialized in 20th and 21st century novels.His latest paper was in the International Journal of Education and Research entitled "Contemporary Reviews of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse". He also participated in a number of International conference.