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Originally Posted by kennyc
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The problem is, kennyc, that you are talking about the law and I am talking about literature. It's analogous the well known (in the UK) Lady Chatterley case where the law said the book was indecent and should be banned, and the literary case held that literary value trumps the law on decency. Lady Chatterley's Lover clearly was indecent according to the law as it stood - but that judgment was irrelevant then and now looks plain stupid. To keep banging on about what the law says is equally irrelevant in this case if one is looking at the book from the perspective of literature.
We will never agree because we are not talking about the same thing - so perhaps we should just leave it at that. I think I said before, disagreeing is fine. Discussion is fine too, but the discussants have to be discussing the same thing for it to get anywhere.
BTW "intertextuality" is a perfectly well-known and often used (probably overused) concept in literary theory. If you are really interested in the question of what it is, rather than simply making a rhetorical point with your earlier post, the link I provided earlier explains the concept very well.