1/31 Intertextuality

This week in class we discussed a lot about intertextuality and Macherey and Barthes' theories. Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts or the relationship between texts. We also talked about the "gap" between us and texts. When we see text, whether it is written, electronic, or spoken we "fill in the gap" to get a sense of meaning from what the text is trying to say. You put words on the board and asked us what we thought when we saw these certain words. It was interesting to see that everyone had a different idea of what the words meant to them. This is because we all "fill in the gap" differently. We each have a unique way of thinking and therefore get different meanings from the same word. We each create our individual meanings from past memories or past texts we have experienced.