Texts On Texts And Textuality

Author : Philip G. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136517006

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Texts and Textuality by Philip G. Cohen Pdf

These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis, transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring the connections between textual instability and textual theory, interpretation, and pedagogy. What makes this collection unique is that each essay brings a different theoretical orientation-New Historicism, Poststructuralism, or Feminism-to bear upon a different text, such as Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, or hypertext fiction, to explore the dialectical relationship between texts and textuality. The essays bring some of the textual theories that compete with each other today into contact with a broad range of primarily literary textual histories. That texts are intrinsically unstable, frequently consisting of a series of determinate historical versions, has consequences for all students of literature, because different versions of a literary work frequently help shape different readings independently of the interpretations brought to bear upon them. Textual instability of the works is relevant to our understanding of how the meanings of texts are generated. The contributors build on the numerous challenges to the Anglo-American editorial tradition mounted during the past decade by scholars as diverse as Jerome McGann, D.F. McKenzie, Peter Shillingsburg, D.C. Greetham, Hershel Parker, and Hans Walter Gabler. The volume contributes to the paradigm shift in textual scholarship inaugurated by these scholars. Index.

Author : Karin Sterz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668952232

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What Makes a Text a Text? A Survey of the Criteria for Text Functionality by Karin Sterz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, course: Text analysis an text production, language: English, abstract: This work deals with the seven key criteria for textuality as developed by de Beaugrande and Dressler. The key criteria for textuality, which were developed by de Beaugrande and Dressler in 1981, encompass: Cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality and intertextuality. To develop an understanding of this matter is of importance for anyone who is working in the field of text production. As examples may serve the professions of journalists, authors, translators, teachers and many more. A thorough understanding of the criteria for textuality will bring with it an expanded capacity of producing, analyzing and understanding texts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783346266880

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What makes a text a text? Criteria for text functionality by Anonim Pdf

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Basics, grade: 1,3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: Can sentences or words that express statements or questions by any means be accepted as a text? Must a text be informative and well-intended to its recipients to be valued as textual, or does it solely need to be meaningful and suitable for the context? Furthermore, what exactly does the word ‘text’ or ‘textual’ even mean? Although one may have an intuitive understanding of what a text is, it can be necessary to establish a clear distinction between a text and a non-text. The understanding of what makes a text a text is particularly interesting, not only for translators, interpreters or linguists, to mention only a few, but also for anyone who aims to produce comprehensible texts. The knowledge helps to produce texts, where clear references of textuality can be made visible.

Author : Anders Pettersson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266019

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The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning by Anders Pettersson Pdf

In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for many practical purposes, but inadequate in discussions of a theoretically more demanding nature. Having clearly demonstrated its intellectual drawbacks, he develops an alternative, boldly revisionary way of thinking about text and textual meaning. His careful argument is in challenging dialogue with assumptions about language-in-use to be found in a wide range of present-day literary theory, linguistics, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of language.

Author : Jerome J. McGann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 069101518X

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The Textual Condition by Jerome J. McGann Pdf

Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies of literary works as they are generated over time by authors, editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats, Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality.

Author : Charles Bazerman,Paul Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135649692

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What Writing Does and How It Does It by Charles Bazerman,Paul Prior Pdf

In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and intertextual analysis. The chapters have been developed to provide answers to a specified set of questions, with each one offering: *a preview of the chapter's content and purpose; *an introduction to basic concepts, referring to key theoretical and research studies in the area; *details on the types of data and questions for which the analysis is best used; *examples from a wide-ranging group of texts, including educational materials, student writing, published literature, and online and electronic media; *one or more applied analyses, with a clear statement of procedures for analysis and illustrations of a particular sample of data; and *a brief summary, suggestions for additional readings, and a set of activities. The side-by-side comparison of methods allows the reader to see the multi-dimensionality of writing, facilitating selection of the best method for a particular research question. The volume contributors are experts from linguistics, communication studies, rhetoric, literary analysis, document design, sociolinguistics, education, ethnography, and cultural psychology, and each utilizes a specific mode of text analysis. With its broad range of methodological examples, What Writing Does and How It Does It is a unique and invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and for researchers in education, composition, ESL and applied linguistics, communication, L1 and L2 learning, print media, and electronic media. It will also be useful in all social sciences and humanities that place importance on texts and textual practices, such as English, writing, and rhetoric.

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791424677

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A Theory of Textuality by Jorge J. E. Gracia Pdf

This book is just what it says it is: A theory of textuality divided into two parts, logical and epistemological.

Author : Jerome J. McGann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691217758

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The Textual Condition by Jerome J. McGann Pdf

Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies of literary works as they are generated over time by authors, editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats, Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality.

Author : Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux,Neil Fraistat
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0299173844

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Reimagining Textuality by Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux,Neil Fraistat Pdf

What happens when, in the wake of postmodernism, the old enterprise of bibliography, textual criticism, or scholarly editing crosses paths and processes with visual and cultural studies? In Reimagining Textuality, major scholars map out in this volume a new discipline, drawing on and redirecting a host of subfields concerned with the production, distribution, reproduction, consumption, reception, archiving, editing, and sociology of texts.

Author : François Rastier,Frank Collins,Paul Perron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802080294

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Meaning and Textuality by François Rastier,Frank Collins,Paul Perron Pdf

Rastier proposes a theoretical framework for the semantic description and typology of texts, establishing a critical debate among various streams of research before arriving at a synthesis of literary semiotics, thematics, and linguistic semantics.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813915082

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Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts by Tim William Machan Pdf

Textual-Critical studies of medieval English literature have primarily focused on practical matters such as transcription, collation, recension, and the identification of scribal hands. But the theory of editing medieval English works remains largely unexplored. Tim William Machan addresses this void by setting out to articulate the textual and cultural factors that distinctively characterize Middle English works as Middle English and to reveal the role these factors play in editing and interpretation of these works. In revealing how the creation of textual criticism affected the transmission of Middle English, this book will be of interest and accessible to readers relatively new to both textual criticism and Middle English. It will also be of vital importance to specialists in medieval studies, Renaissance studies, and textual criticism.

Author : Catherine Chauvin,Céline Sabiron,Nathalie Collé,Monica Latham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 281430335X

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Textuality and Translation by Catherine Chauvin,Céline Sabiron,Nathalie Collé,Monica Latham Pdf

Author : Graham Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192895370

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Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia by Graham Barrett Pdf

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin charters from the period, it is an essay in the archaeology and biography of text: part one concerns materiality, tracing the lifecycle of charters from initiation and composition to preservation and reuse, while part two addresses connectivity, delineating a network of texts through painstaking identification of more than 2,000 citations of other charters, secular and canon law, the Bible, liturgy, and monastic rules. Few may have been able to read or write, yet the extent of textuality was broad and deep, in the authority conferred upon text and the arrangements made to use it. Via charter and scribe, society and social arrangements came increasingly to be influenced by norms originating from a network of texts. By profiling the intersection and interaction of text with society and culture, Graham Barrett reconstructs textuality, how the authority of the written and the structures to access it framed and constrained actions and cultural norms, and proposes a new model of early medieval reading. As they cited other texts, charters circulated fragments of those texts; we must rethink the relationship of sources and audiences to reflect fragmentary transmission, in a textuality of imperfect knowledge.

Author : Karine Chemla,Jacques Virbel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319164441

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Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science by Karine Chemla,Jacques Virbel Pdf

The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to illustrate a new approach to texts and textual communicative acts. It examines assertives (absolute or conditional statements, forecasts, insurance, etc.), directives, declarations and enumerations, as well as different types of textual units allowing authors to perform these acts: algorithms, recipes, prescriptions, lexical templates for terminological studies and enumerative structures. The book relies on the study of a broad range of documents of the past dealing with various domains: mathematics, zoology, medicine, lexicography. The documents examined come from scholarly sources from different parts of the world, such as China, Europe, India, Mesopotamia and are written in a variety of European languages as well as Chinese, Cuneiform and Sanskrit. This approach proves fruitful in both history of science and Text Act Theory.

Author : Thomas A. Bredehoft
Publisher : Oxford Textual Perspectives
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780199603152

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The Visible Text by Thomas A. Bredehoft Pdf

The Visible Text offers an innovative new vision of literary history and the history of the book from Beowulf to present day graphic novels.