Intertextuality: Further Discussions

We would include posts on "Intertextuality in the Biblical World"; "Intertextuality and Ideology"; "Intertextuality and Translation"; Intertextuality in Bible Translation"

Further discussion.

Stef Slembrouck explains: �Insofar as a user is in a position where s/he cannot access the source text (because it is not available or accessible or its authority cannot be endorsed publicly), intertextually-established re-enactments function as an �original�. It is the widespread but counterfactual belief in reproduction accomplished through a verbatim rendition or translation equivalence which makes it possible for a derived version to function as an original. Such can only happen at the expense of the intertextual transformation itself, denying its relevance and impact (and with this, translators� names and the names of Hansard scribes and editors are forgotten or thought of as irrelevant). Note that this is more than an �imaginative leap� which neutralizes and suppresses inevitable conditions of intertextual mediation which are traceable in textual practice (e.g. when one compares the literary text and its translation; when one compares the printed Hansard with audio-taped recordings). Without this suspension of disbelief, the very claims to institutional authority and legitimacy collapse.� (2011: 171)