Ultimately, an effort at discursive and existential intertextuality

Discursive interttextuality- intertextuality within and between texts
Existential interttextuality-cross reference between aspects of existence and between texts and what they refer to in the extra textual world
The Ifa system discursive intertextuality occurring in terms of cross references between various texts
Existential intertextuality occurring between the texts and their referents in the larger world and between aspects of the larger world-a pattern suggested by insights arrived at through the texts

Joyces Ulysses allusiveness, mythic and historical resonance within the framework of one day in the life of the central character
Dante’s divine comedy interpreting his journey in terms of social and cosmic developments
Perhaps Homer Iliad war the cosmic universe of the gods-the larger world that continues before, during and after the catastrophes of war
Through constant allusion to the world that exists outside the field of battle and to the nonhuman actors participating in war