Theoretical Aspects of Problem of Intertextuality in Modern Literary Studies

The articles deals with the theoretical aspects of the problem of intertexuality. The special attention is given to the formation of the term in the works of M.M. Bachtin and J. Kristeva and to its definition in the modern literary studies. Intertextuality is seen as a central feature of postmodern poetics, the basis of postmodern writing. In postmodern philosophy the interaction of texts appears as a universal principle of the existence of culture. The concept of the world as text, characteristic of the current cultural situation, implies that every text, be it literary, historical, social, turns out, regardless of the author’s will, involved in interaction with other texts, both created before him and at the same time and written later However, despite some differences in approaches and formulations, there is a common desire of scholars to reflect in their definitions such underlying property as intertextuality, as conscious from the point of view of the author's desire to establish links between his work and the works of his