The short two paragraphs about intertextuality in Doug Eyman’s “Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric”, made me realize that in a sense, intertextuality is everywhere. Every piece of writing has probably used other works to get their idea or information. I took a research class my sophomore year of college. In this class, I had to use multiple articles in order to prove what I was writing was true. It was intertextuality because I used other works that insisted and supported my idea to write my paper and gave credit at the end of my work. It’s quite interesting to think that every piece of writing connects to another in the form that it helped create another.
I would also say that intertextuality can be used between books and movies, too. Directors and producers see the potential a book has and work alongside the author to bring the book to life. Movies don’t have every single detail that a book has, but the main idea is always brought to physical view. There is always a visible relationship between the book and the movie. That visible relationship is what shows how literature and film can coincide with each other.
Intertextuality is used everywhere. So many articles, books, and other literature pieces use other pieces that connect them to each other. Authors use intertextuality to connect series together and researchers use it to prove their point. All texts come from other places as many authors read something that spark a new idea that they felt they could expand on. In expanding on it, they are connecting their ideas to the ideas of others. I believe that this is what makes literature so interesting. The idea that everything comes from something and it all connects to one another in some way, shape or form.
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