Incluye bibliografía (p. [208]-227) e índice.

1. Intertextuality: Kristeva's term in context ; Kristeva's intertextuality and semeiotik ; Barthes ; Riffaterre ; Interdiscursivity ; Interdisciplinarity ; Internet and hypertext -- 2. Influence: Bloom's 'anxiety of influence' in context ; Harold Bloom ; 'Traditional' influence -- 3. Imitation: Imitation in context : mimesis or anti-mimesis? ; Richard Dawkins: genetics and 'memetics' ; Gérard Genette: rhetoric and the mimologic ; René Girard: scandal and excommunication ; Countering the canon: imitatio v. plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit -- 4. Quotation: Quotation in context: dictionary or postmodern definitions? ; Quotation's crystallizations: illustration in few other words ; Allusion ; Quotation's aptness: adeptness in other words ; Abridgement as allegory and parable ; Bridging as cycle and cyclification ; Span and interpretation -- Quotation as extraction: recirculations and exchanges in so many other words ; Prophecy ; Translation ; Coda: the return of reference and the work of Paul Ricoeur.