ABSTRACT
Since its appearance in poststructuralist work of the late 1960s intertextuality has been adopted and explored by theorists of a more structuralist frame of mind. To speak of a decisive fork in the river which flows from Kristeva’s initial engagement with Bakhtin, a fork producing distinctly poststructuralist and distinctly structuralist accounts of our term, would be a mistake. However, it is still possible to locate what I will style a structuralist – by which I mean a more circumscribed – rendition of intertextuality in a number of theorists working from the late 1960s onwards.
