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Intertextuality is embedded in the way we live. I was watching a rerun of the TV show “Friends” the other night when a conversation between Phoebe and Ross about evolution got me thinking about my college biology textbook’s section on evolution and about the jingle at the beginning of another TV show, “The Big Bang Theory:” The autotrophes began to drool… And there you have it—a chain of connections between “texts.” Although intertextuality informs our state of being, we don’t often take time to analyze it, perhaps taking this sort of associative thinking for granted.
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Hollander, P.W. (2017). Making Connections. In: Readiness Realities. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-938-6_6
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