The basic assumption is that a literary title, like the body of the text, includes various historical, cultural, biographical, literary, and stylistic signs. It may be termed the collection point or the melting pot of different types of raw materials. It processes, improves, and reproduces these raw materials in a certain dosage, which the author tries to adjust to the needs of both text and reader. Accordingly, I am referring to the relationship between the title and these factors as “mutual incorporation” or intertextuality, based on the three categories of reference: the title as a system of external reference, the title as a system of self-reference, and the title as a system of internal reference.
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