Since the 1980s, intertextuality has been a common concept in literary studies. It indicates that a text is in principle seen as a node in a network of other texts, not as an autonomous artistic expression.Go to footnote1 The meaning of a text is seen in this way not only a result of connections that the text components enter into with each other (parallelism, mirroring, contrasting effects and the like) or of references to the social reality, but also of relationships that can be discerned with one or more other texts. Because medieval literature is largely traditional - the originality of a text consists largely of the new positioning with respect to known texts from the same genre - an intertextual approach has proven to be appropriate and fruitful there. - [Author]

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