Intertextuality and Female Representation in Thomas Hardy‘s Jude the Obscure (1895)

Abstract

This present research is conducted in order to understand what intertextuality is as a term from diffrent perceptions , especially from Julia Kristeva’s perception who was considered as the founder of this term in the first place . the latter was influenced by bakhtin’s idea of dialogism in which according to him both are interrelated because both are based on the relationship between the reader and that specific book the author refered to. This work Shows the employment of intertextuality in one of the greatest literary work of all time that is Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895) which is considerd rather as authobiography since it is a depiction of the real life of Hardy himself