Intratextuality is a critical term used to explore the relationship between the parts and the whole in texts, including issues of unity (and disunity), the relationship between digressions and their surroundings, interactions between disparate parts of texts (such as ring composition), juxtapositions that may reflect surprisingly on their neighbors, or any structural issue within a single work of literature.
Intratextual approaches may also be interested in ways in which the activity of a reader affects the response to the text, for example by dividing it into mental “paragraphs.”
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