For philosopher Julia Kristeva, who coined the term intertextuality, "any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." Similarly, her contemporary Roland Barthes proclaimed that "the text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture."

DEFINE: Introduces and defines the concept of intertextuality via Kristeva and Barthes, framing any text as a mosaic or tissue of quotations from culture.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 33