A Programmatic Note: on two Types of Intertextuality

Reviel Netz

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques (2005)

  • Volume: 11, Issue: 1, page 141-154
  • ISSN: 1262-022X

Abstract

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The note addresses briefly some reactions to a previous article “Deuteronomic Texts: Late Antiquity and the History of Mathematics”. In particular it looks at the question: if indeed any text must depend on previous texts, what makes the dependency of commentary and commentary-like text so special to justify my emphasis on this form of writing ? A suggestion is developed, trying to define Deuteronomic texts through their precise semiotics of intertextuality: in general, it is argued, intertextuality may be paradigmatic (= allusion) or syntagmatic (= commentary). The consequences of syntagmatic intertextuality can then be seen to hold for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The note further opens up the question concerning the historical process underlying the transition between modes of intertextuality.

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Netz, Reviel. "A Programmatic Note: on two Types of Intertextuality." Revue d'histoire des mathématiques 11.1 (2005): 141-154. <http://eudml.org/doc/252043>.

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References

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