What Can the Intertextual Paradigm Yield to Translation Studies – An East European Perspective
What Can the Intertextual Paradigm Yield to Translation Studies – An East European Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to survey theorizations of intertextuality as an ontological feature of translation, a line of thinking well represented in the East European translation studies as well as to show the purposes this paradigm has served in translational reflection. I investigate the concept(s) and applications thereof, and trace the interrelations between the ideas of various scholars. Intertextuality is shown to have served the following ends: locating translation among other forms of communication, explaining the mode of existence of translation, reclaiming for it the status of a rightful literary activity and defending it from charges of parasitism, probing translations’ interactions with other texts, constructing inter-disciplinary approaches. Last but not least, intertextuality has recently been integrated into the very model of the translation process.

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