Textuality And Knowledge

Author : Peter Shillingsburg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780271079936

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Textuality and Knowledge by Peter Shillingsburg Pdf

In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship. Through thirteen essays, Shillingsburg argues that literary study depends on documents, the preservation of works, and textual replication, and he traces how this proposition affects understanding. He explains the consequences of textual knowledge (and ignorance) in teaching, reading, and research—and in the generous impulses behind the digitization of cultural documents. He also examines the ways in which facile assumptions about a text can lead one astray, discusses how differing international and cultural understandings of the importance of documents and their preservation shape both knowledge about and replication of works, and assesses the dissemination of information in the context of ethics and social justice. In bringing these wide-ranging pieces together, Shillingsburg reveals how and why meaning changes with each successive rendering of a work, the value in viewing each subsequent copy of a text as an original entity, and the relationship between textuality and knowledge. Featuring case studies throughout, this erudite collection distills decades of Shillingsburg’s thought on literary history and criticism and appraises the place of textual studies and scholarly editing today.

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Peter Szondi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0719014638

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On Textual Understanding and Other Essays by Peter Szondi Pdf

Author : Barry W. Holtz
Publisher : Jewish Education
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126849046

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Textual Knowledge by Barry W. Holtz Pdf

Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice is a book aimed at anyone who wishes to explore what it means to teach the Bible, one of the foundational texts of Western culture. In this volume the author explores the largest issues involved in Bible teaching: What are our purposes? What are the outcomes that we are looking for? How do we conceptualize the Bible as the subject matter? How do we develop theories of Bible teaching? And how do we move from theory to practice? Looking at a variety of alternative conceptions, Textual Knowledge helps offer clarity about a teacher's goals and practical advice about what it means to attain those goals. In addition the book explores the relationship between knowledge of Bible and teaching the Bible. What kind of knowledge does the Bible teacher need to have? How must that knowledge of subject matter be structured and conceptualized? How might differing scholarly conceptions of the discipline influence teachers' ways of thinking about the Bible. Drawing upon recent research in the field of general education, the author draws connections to the domain of Bible education. Asa book that embraces both theoretical issues and practical concerns, Textual Knowledge explores matters of central concern to Jewish educations in particular, but is relevant to educators from other religious traditions and for those teaching the Bible in secular institutions such as universities as well. At its heart the author seeks to improve Bible pedagogy - making it deeper, richer, more reflective and more powerful for students of any age and in any setting.

Author : Philip G. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Ann R Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317315575

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Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Book History by Ann R Hawkins Pdf

Offers a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. This work considers the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object. These essays are of interest to university teachers incorporating textual studies and research methods into their courses.

Author : Ellis R. Brotzman,Eric J. Tully
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493404759

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Old Testament Textual Criticism by Ellis R. Brotzman,Eric J. Tully Pdf

A Readable, Updated Introduction to Textual Criticism This accessibly written, practical introduction to Old Testament textual criticism helps students understand the discipline and begin thinking through complex issues for themselves. The authors combine proven expertise in the classroom with cutting-edge work in Hebrew textual studies. This successful classic (nearly 25,000 copies sold) has been thoroughly expanded and updated to account for the many changes in the field over the past twenty years. It includes examples, illustrations, an updated bibliography, and a textual commentary on the book of Ruth.

Author : Karin Sterz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Adriaan van der Weel
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0719085551

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Changing Our Textual Minds by Adriaan van der Weel Pdf

Text has always been the chief vehicle for the inscription and dissemination of knowledge and culture. As more and more of our textual communication moves into the digital realm we have reached a crucial moment in the history of textual transmission. In many respects digital text looks deceptively like print. But beneath the surface of the screen, digital textuality obeys very different rules than printed text. The digital textual universe offers a wealth of new and exciting possibilities - but it also sets new rules for the writer’s and reader’s engagement with text. Changing our textual minds analyses the continuities and discontinuities in textual transmission as we move from a print paradigm into an increasingly digital world. It conceptualizes the epochal transition from analogue to digital both in factual terms and in terms of its social significance. Centuries of reading and writing practice have made us Homo typographicus. Our entire way of disseminating knowledge and culture is firmly based on print culture. The need to come to grips with the shift to digital textuality in the early twenty-first century will literally change our minds.

Author : Paul Eggert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108485746

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The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies by Paul Eggert Pdf

Reflects on and re-imagines the role of the scholarly edition and its reader in the twenty-first century.

Author : J. McGann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137107381

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Radiant Textuality by J. McGann Pdf

This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education. The changes flow from the re-examination of the very foundations of the humanities - its theories of textuality and communication - that are being forced by developments in information technology. A threshold was crossed during the last decade of the twentieth century with the emergence of the World Wide Web, which has (1) globalized access to computerized resources and information, and (2) made interface and computer graphics paramount concerns for work in digital culture. While these changes are well known, their consequences are not well understood, despite so much discussion by digital enthusiasts and digital doomsters alike. In reconsidering these matters, Radiant Textuality introduces some remarkable new proposals for integrating computerized tools into the central interpretative and critical activities of traditional humanities disciplines, and of literary studies in particular.

Author : Orietta Da Rold,Elaine M. Treharne,Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842392

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Textual Cultures, Cultural Texts by Orietta Da Rold,Elaine M. Treharne,Elaine Treharne Pdf

New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.

Author : J. H. Chajes,Adam S. Cohen,Marcia Kupfer
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503583032

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The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by J. H. Chajes,Adam S. Cohen,Marcia Kupfer Pdf

All of us are exposed to graphic means of communication on a daily basis. Our life seems flooded with lists, tables, charts, diagrams, models, maps, and forms of notation. Although we now take such devices for granted, their role in the codification and transmission of knowledge evolved within historical contexts where they performed particular tasks. The medieval and early modern periods stand as a formative era during which visual structures, both mental and material, increasingly shaped and systematized knowledge. Yet these periods have been sidelined as theorists interested in the epistemic potential of visual strategies have privileged the modern natural sciences. This volume expands the field of research by focusing on the relationship between the arts of memory and modes of graphic mediation through the sixteenth century. Chapters encompass Christian (Greek as well as Latin) production, Jewish (Hebrew) traditions, and the transfer of Arabic learning. The linked essays anthologized here consider the generative power of schemata, cartographic representation, and even the layout of text: more than merely compiling information, visual arrangements formalize abstract concepts, provide grids through which to process data, set in motion analytic operations that give rise to new ideas, and create interpretive frameworks for understanding the world.

Author : Rebekka Schneider
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783346256386

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What makes a text a text? Criteria for text functionality by Rebekka Schneider Pdf

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: A text is more than the bare listing of words in a row or the adding of various sentences randomly to each other. The knowledge of what components are included in a text and in which way these components interact with each other is the key in truly understanding a text, as well as it is essential for being able to fully receive its message. For many jobs – especially for language related jobs, for example interpreters and translators –the task to develope and enhance textual skills is undeniable crucial for employees.To have the knowledge of text competence includes the cognitive ability to analyze unknown text in order to receive ist useful information and to be able to create a text by oneself. Therefore, the main question to answer is: “What makes a text a text?“ Even if this might look at first sight very simple to answer, this topic is far more complex than originally expected. In fact, since the 1960s there has been a linguistic science field named “text linguistic“ which deals with this question in greater detail.

Author : Matthew James Driscoll,Elena Pierazzo
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783742417

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Digital Scholarly Editing by Matthew James Driscoll,Elena Pierazzo Pdf

This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress of computer technology has changed the nature of textual scholarship at the most fundamental level: the way editors and scholars work, the tools they use to do such work and the research questions they attempt to answer have all been affected. Each of the essays in Digital Scholarly Editing approaches these changes with a different methodological consideration in mind. Together, they make a compelling case for re-evaluating the foundation of the discipline—one that tests its assertions against manuscripts and printed works from across literary history, and the globe. The sheer breadth of Digital Scholarly Editing, along with its successful integration of theory and practice, help redefine a rapidly-changing field, as its firm grounding and future-looking ambit ensure the work will be an indispensable starting point for further scholarship. This collection is essential reading for editors, scholars, students and readers who are invested in the future of textual scholarship and the digital humanities.