worlds are remade as well. There is little closure and fixing of textual boundaries associated with Kristeva’s notion of intertexuality. For Kristeva, then, intertextuality is concerned foremost with the act of cultural production and reproduction (a “signifying practice” following Barthes, a “writing” following Derrida) in which the text (be it linguistic, somatic, visual, etc.) can be envisioned spatially as a field traversed by lines of force in which various signifying systems undergo transposition