intratextuality

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Noun

intratextuality (countable and uncountable, plural intratextualities)

  1. The quality of being intratextual.
  2. A reference by a text to itself.
    • 2010, Joseph Farrell, Michael C. J. Putnam, A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition, page 183:
      Spenser has an intimate feel for Vergilian intratextuality, the mirrorings and repetitions that create patterns of likeness and difference, reaching over the whole text and linking images, motifs, and persons.