Dialogic Relations and Aspects of Intertextuality in Louisa May Alcott’s Feminine Novel Little Women (1868).

Abstract

The discourse in the novel is characterized and composed by many aspects among which intertextuality and dialogism as it can be related to women’s writing and appeared throughout the development of feminism. The novel was considered as the main literary genre, since many women novelists approved it. In fact, this research work dealt with the literary discourse analysis of the American feminine novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and the development of women’s writing throughout various generations. It mainly analyzed Intertextuality and Dialogism as literary techniques and then the position of women in the early nineteenth century as well as how the Eastern women identified with Little Women