Intratextuality: From Self-Citation to Self-Intertextuality

The article discusses the idea of intratextuality related to internal relations within a text. In literary practice, this strategy employs many ways of repetition or reduplication of textual parts from a simple phrase to much more complex structures such as argument, digression, trope, or figure. The strategy's most evident form is self-intertextuality, which limits the field of references to texts signed with the name or pseudonym of a single author. Covering various strategies of repetition from self-citation to self -paraphrase, intratextuality assumes considerable freedom of self-interpretation. Moreover, this concept may turn out to be analytically useful in a more complete description of textual self-referentiality, as in the case of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski's ode to Pope Urban VIII (I 21).