Abstract
The present research focuses on the theme of love, its importanceand applicationthrough intertextualityin postmodern fictionunder textual analysis of Plato’s Symposiumand Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. The authors may use, consciously or unconsciously, the intertextual linksamong various sources of texts topresent a newfangled version of historical events. The objectives of suchintertetxualitymay include reinterpretation, appreciation and criticismof the undertaken subject. This approach of revisiting the history and marking ties with preceded happening(s) to formulate an up-to-dateversion lies in the archetype of postmodern perspective. Theresearcher aims at exploring how Milan Kunderahas made effective use of intertextuality andredefined love in postmodern paradigm. Further, this is to reconnoiter how Julia Kristeva’s model of intertextuality can play an effective role in formingconnections amonghypertexts and hypotexts. The main stance is thatthe authors have been re-writing the same stories over and over again by employing text(s) withintheir own dense webof discourse.Furthermore, the future researcherscan use Kristeva’s model to trace theintertextual connectionsamong texts to denote theirinfluence andinspirationfor their contemporary value
Mohsin Hamid Butt, Dr. Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque, Dr. Taimoor Kiyani. (2021) Intertextuality and Platonic Eros: A MetafictionalStudy of Plato’s Symposium and Milan Kundera’s The Book ofLaughter and Forgetting, Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics, volume 3, issue 4.
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