Poetics of intertextuality in the novel “Foe” by J. M. Coetzee

Abstract

The specificity of D. Defoe’s oeuvre reception in the novel “Foe” by South African writer J. M. Coetzee is examined in this article. For the first time in the literary study relationship of copresence between “Foe” by J. M. Coetzee and D. Defoe’s novels is investigated in different categories of transtextual relation: intertextuality, hypertextuality, paratextuality, architextuality and metatextuality. Special emphasis is put on the poetics of intertextuality and peculiarity of characters system in the indicated novel.