Instead of intertextuality, can one perhaps speak of an intervisuality? As a way of understanding how the meaning of images are shaped by other images related to or existing around them? As for intervisuality, I’m drawing on notions of intertextuality as introduced by Julia Kristeva[1]. Kristeva referred to texts in terms of two axes: a horizontal axis connecting the author and reader of a text...

The study of intertextuality, the shaping of a text’s meaning by other texts, remains a laborious process for the literary critic. Kristeva (Kristeva, 1986) suggests that "Any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another.& The nature of these mosaics is widely varied, from direct quotations representing a simple and overt intertextualit...

3 Ignacio Mendez-Balbuena, Jose Raul Naranjo, Xi Wang, Agnieska 4 Andrykiewicz, Frank Huethe, Jürgen Schulte-Mönting, Marie-Claude Hepp5 Reymond, Rumyana Kristeva 6 1 Neurological Clinic, University Freiburg, Breisacherstraße 64, 79106 Freiburg 7 Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, Freiburg, Germany 8 3 Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Zuri...

I argue that Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games is an emblem of what Julia Kristeva calls the “extravagant girl” who wants to have it all and to be the best at everything. Katniss has an ambiguous gender identity, both masculine and feminine, paternal and maternal. And she has ambivalent desires. I conclude that this ambiguity and ambivalence open up new possibilities for girls and initiate...