The term 'intertextuality' was first coined by which theorist in the late 1960s, drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin?
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Correct answer: Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva introduced the term in her essays 'Word, Dialogue and Novel' and 'The Bounded Text.' She argued that any text is a mosaic of quotations and that any text is the absorption and transformation of another.
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