— (Latin: influentia, French: l’influence (f.), German: der Einfluß, Russian: ълияние) is one of the most intensively studied topics in studies of literature and a literary term with multiple meanings. Etymologically, the word “influence” means the movement of a liquid substance into a receptacle or container. (...)
— a productive semantic homonym with various equivalents in Latin: 1) fons – a place, from which water flows out onto the earth’s surface; a spring; a fount; 2) radix – root; core; line of ancestry; that which forms the beginning of something; reason; provenance; 3) origo – genesis, beginning, origin, reason, lineage; 4) principium – beginning, initiation. (...)
There is no doubt that French literary scholarship advanced the concept of intertextuality considerably in the second half of the 20th century. In 1966, in an issue of the legendary magazine Tel Quel, Julia Kristeva published an article entitled “Le mot, le dialogue, le roman” (Word, Dialogue, and Novel) in which readers found a statement revolutionary for its time: “tout texte se construit comme une mosaïque de citations, tout texte est absorption et transformation d’un autre texte” (each text is constructed like a mosaic of quotations, each text is the absorption and transformation of another text). (...)