C2
writing
How do you recognize and analyse intertextuality in French literature?
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Model answer
Direct citation (with or without quotation marks). Allusion. Parody. Pastiche. Rewriting of myths (Anouilh's Antigone after Sophocles; Giraudoux's Électre). Reference to classic topoi (carpe diem, ubi sunt, locus amoenus).
Why
Intertextual analysis demonstrates literary culture and command.
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