ABSTRACT
All matter is transformed into other matter. Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World
The processes of adaptation and appropriation that are the concern of this book are in many respects a sub-section of the over-arching practice of intertextuality. As mentioned in the introduction, the notion of intertextuality is most readily associated with Julia Kristeva who, invoking examples from literature, art, and music, made the case in essays such as ‘The Bounded Text’ (1980) and ‘Word, Dialogue, Novel’ (1986) that all texts invoke and rework other texts in a rich and ever-evolving cultural mosaic. The impulse towards intertextuality, and the narrative and architectural bricolage that can result from that impulse, is regarded by many as a central tenet of postmodernism (Allen 2000).
