A stylistic study of mythical intertextuality in Milton's "Lycidas"

Abstract EN

Intertextuality is a controversial modern linguistic term which has raised unsettled debatesabout writers' creativity and ideas ownership.

The present paper is a literary linguistic study thathands over a substantial deliberation on the debated subject.

The study is launched by anintroduction to correlated topics including definitions, types, mechanisms, techniques, andarguments about intertextuality.

Then, comprehensive deliberations and detailed analysis ofmythical intertextuality in Milton's "Lycidas" are introduced.

The paper has come up with aconclusion that the author is never dead since the text is alive and no longer a "once upon a time"narration but rather a living seed endlessly gives birth of current associations and predicts of futureprospects.

It has been also reached to a sort of agreement with Kristevain her confirmation on theproductivity of intertextuality.