intertextuality

The relationship between texts whereby any text absorbs, transforms, echoes, or answers other texts. The map carves three regimes: (1) explicit citation and allusion — named references a reader can trace; (2) genre convention — structural debts to templates that operate below the level of conscious reference; (3) the unconscious intertext — the reservoir of cultural narratives, formulas, and discourse patterns that shape what can be said without the author's deliberate intent. The concept maps how meaning is distributed across a network of writing rather than located in a single authorial act. Persistence mechanism: reading and writing practices that assume textual priorhood; literary criticism and education that teach readers to recognize and produce intertextual relations; digital linking technology that materializes the concept as hypermedia. [formal: intertextualitas | substrate: mind | horizon: hours | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]