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Textual Practice: Volume 4, Issue 3

by Terence Hawkes

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Textual Practice: Issue 7 Volume 3 No. 1

by Terence Hawkes

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Textual Practice: Volume 8, Issue 1

by Terence Hawkes

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Textual Practice: Volume 8, Issue 1

by Terence Hawkes

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Textual Practice: Issue 8 Volume 3 No. 2

by Terence Hawkes

This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literature and literary theory.

Textual Practice: Issue 9 Volume 3 No. 3

by Terence Hawkes

This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literature and literary theory.

Textual Practice: Volume 9 Issue 1 (Textual Practice Ser.)

by Alan Sinfield

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Textual Practice 10.3

by Vijay Mishra John Barrell Thomas Docherty Simon Shepherd Jonathan Dollimore

Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism "Thomas Doucherty"--Descartes, Baudrillard, Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and France in the late seventeenth century.ILaodamia and the moaning of Mary "John" "Barrell"--changing critical responses to Wordsworth's "heroic version of masculinity." Melodrama as Avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity "Simon Shepherd"--nineteenth-century English radicals and translations of French melodrama. The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora "Vijay Mishra;" Bisexuality, heterosexuality and wishful theory "Jonathan Dollimore. Reviews, index. Holcroft ""IA Tale of Mystery, --a melo-drame" and ICaleb Williams

Textual Rivals: Self-Presentation in Herodotus’ Histories

by David Branscome

Textual Rivals studies some of the most debated issues in Herodotean scholarship. One such is Herodotus' self-presentation: the conspicuousness of his authorial persona is one of the most remarkable features of his Histories. So frequently does he interject first-person comments into the narrative that Herodotus at times almost becomes a character within his own text. Important issues are tied to Herodotus' self-presentation. First is the narrator's relationship to truth: to what extent does he expect readers to trust his narrative? While judgments regarding Herodotus' overall veracity have often been damning, scholars have begun to concentrate on how Herodotus presents his truthfulness. Second is the precise genre Herodotus means to create with his work. Excluding the anachronistic term historian, exactly what would Herodotus have called himself, as author? Third is the presence of "self-referential" characters, whose actions often mirror Herodotus' as narrator/researcher, in the Histories. David Branscome's investigative text points to the rival inquirers in Herodotus' Histories as a key to unraveling these interpretive problems. The rival inquirers are self-referential characters Herodotus uses to further his authorial self-presentation. Through the contrast Herodotus draws between his own exacting standards as an inquirer and the often questionable standards of those rivals, Herodotus underlines just how truthful readers should find his own work. Textual Rivals speaks to those interested in Greek history and historiography, narratology, and ethnography. Those in the growing ranks of Herodotus fans will find much to invite and intrigue.

Textual Scholarship: An Introduction

by David Greetham

This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling "Textual Scholarship" covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.

Textual Silence: Unreadability and the Holocaust

by Jessica Lang

There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts—and that this barrier is not a lack of substance, but a defining characteristic of the genre. Holocaust texts, which encompass works as diverse as memoirs, novels, poems, and diaries, are traditionally characterized by silences the authors place throughout the text, both deliberately and unconsciously. While a reader may have the desire and will to comprehend the Holocaust, the presence of “textual silence” is a force that removes the experience of genocide from the reader’s analysis and imaginative recourse. Lang defines silences as omissions that take many forms, including the use of italics and quotation marks, ellipses and blank pages in poetry, and the presence of unreliable narrators in fiction. While this limits the reader’s ability to read in any conventional sense, these silences are not flaws. They are instead a critical presence that forces readers to acknowledge how words and meaning can diverge in the face of events as unimaginable as those of the Holocaust.

Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers (Material Texts)

by Andrew Taylor

Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus.Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other similarly bound medieval volumes to explore the manuscripts and marginalia that have been cast into shadow by the fame of adjacent texts, some of the most read medieval works. In addition to the bound volume that contains The Song of Roland, Taylor examines the volume that binds the well-known poem "Sumer is icumen in" with the Lais of Marie de France, and a volume containing the legal Decretals of Gregory IX with marginal illustrations of wayfaring life decorating its borders.Approaching the manuscript as artifact, Textual Situations suggests that medieval texts must be examined in terms of their material support—that is, literal interpretation must take into consideration the physical manuscript itself in addition to the social conventions that surround its compilation. Taylor reconstructs the circumstances of the creation of these medieval bound volumes, the settings in which they were read, inscribed, and shared, and the social and intellectual conventions surrounding them.

The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus (Routledge Revivals)

by Robert Kilburn Root

First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer’s Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer’s Troilus with the printed texts. The purpose of the volume is to evaluate eighteen manuscripts, to determine so far as may be their relation to one another and to Chaucer’s original, and to show how they are to be used for the establishing of a critical text. This book will be of interest to students of literature, linguistics and history.

Textual Transformations in Children's Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations (Children's Literature and Culture #87)

by Benjamin Lefebvre

This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits children’s literature and culture in order to consider the generic, pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales, films, graphic novels, and anime, the authors consider the challenges inherent in transforming the work of authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and A.A. Milne into new forms that are palatable for later audiences particularly when—for perceived ideological or political reasons—the textual transformation is not only unavoidable but entirely necessary. Contributors consider the challenges inherent in transforming stories and characters from one type of text to another, across genres, languages, and time, offering a range of new models that will inform future scholarship.

Textual Transgressions: Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography

by David Greetham

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Textual Travels: Theory and Practice of Translation in India

by Mini Chandran Suchitra Mathur

This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects. It explores how the cultural politics of globalization is played out most powerfully in the realm of popular culture, and especially the role of translation in its practical facets, ranging from the fields of literature and publishing to media and sports.

Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practice of Narrative Digression

by Rhian Atkin

"Digression is a crucial motif in literary narratives. It features as a key characteristic of fictional works from Cervantes and Sterne, to Proust, Joyce and Calvino. Moving away from a linear narrative and following a path of associations reflects how we think and speak. Yet an author's inability to stick to the point has often been seen to detract from a work of literature, somehow weakening it. This wide-ranging and timely volume seeks to celebrate narrative digressions and move towards a theoretical framework for studying the meanderings of literary texts as a useful and valuable aspect of literature. Essays discussing some of the possibilities for approaching narrative digression from a theoretical perspective are complemented with focused studies of European and American authors. As a whole, the book offers a broad and varied view of textual wanderings."

Textuality and Knowledge: Essays (Penn State Series in the History of the Book #27)

by Peter Shillingsburg

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.

Textuality and Knowledge: Essays (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

by Peter Shillingsburg

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.

The Textuality Of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac's Quest For Spontaneous Prose

by Timothy Hunt

Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development of “Spontaneous Prose” to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical experiment of Visions of Cody, and to demonstrate Kerouac’s transition from working within the textual paradigm of modern print to the textual paradigm of secondary orality. From these perspectives, Tim Hunt crafts a new critical approach to Beat poetics and textual theory, marking an important contribution to the current revival of Kerouac and Beat studies underway at universities in the U. S. and abroad, as reflected by a growing number of conferences, courses, and a renewal in scholarship.

The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet

by Roger D. Woodard David A. Scott

In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performances of the oral poets. Since a time older than Greek antiquity, the oral poets of Indo-European tradition had been called 'weavers of words' - their extemporaneous performance of poetry was 'word weaving'. With the arrival of the new technology of the alphabet and the onset of Greek literacy, the very act of producing written symbols was interpreted as a comparable performance activity, albeit one in which almost everyone could participate, not only the select few. It was this new conceptualization of and participation in performance activity by the masses that eventually, or perhaps quickly, resulted in the demise of oral composition in performance in Greece. In conjunction with this investigation, Woodard analyzes a set of copper plaques inscribed with repeated alphabetic series and a line of what he interprets to be text, which attests to this archaic Greek conceptualization of the performance of symbol crafting.

Textuelle Dramaturgie: Eine Methode der Theatertextanalyse

by Kerstin Mertenskötter

Ein Blick in die aktuellen Spielpläne der Theater der Gegenwart offenbart ein offenes und hetero-genes Feld an Textformen und Inszenierungsweisen. Klassische Dramen und traditionelle Insze-nierungen finden sich neben postdramatischen Arbeiten und der Ästhetik der Neudramatik. Das Postdramatische Theater und ebensolche Texte, etwa von Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke oder René Pollesch stehen dabei im Kontext ihrer Aufkündigung mit dem „Dreigestirn von Drama, Handlung und Nachahmung“, wie Hans-Thies Lehmann es in seiner Monografie "Postdramatisches Theater" beschreibt. Dies führt zu einer Entpersonalisierung der Figuren, zu einer Monologisierung der Dialogstruktur, zu einem Bruch mit dem Anspruch auf kausal-logische Wiedergabe eines ‚Geschehens‘. Doch die an der aristotelischen Poetik und dem Drama des 18. Jahrhunderts ausgerichtete Methode der Dramenanalyse kann (aktuelle) Theatertexte, die ohne Handlung und Figuren auskommen, nicht oder nur ex negativo erfassen. Kerstin Mertenskötter entwickelt eigene, erweiterte und revidierte literaturwissenschaftliche Analysebegriffe. Die Methode der Theatertextanalyse ermöglicht es, sowohl einen produktiven analytischen Zugang zu post- und neudramatischen Theatertexten zu erlangen, wie auch dramaturgische Verfahren in Theatertexten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts zu entdecken.

Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload (The\mit Press Ser.)

by Richard H. Harper

Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see what Shaquille O'Neal has to say on Twitter. In Texture, Richard Harper asks why we seek out new ways of communicating even as we complain about communication overload.Harper describes the mistaken assumptions of developers that “more” is always better and argues that users prefer simpler technologies that allow them to create social bonds. Communication is not just the exchange of information. There is a texture to our communicative practices, manifest in the different means we choose to communicate (quick or slow, permanent or ephemeral).

The Texture of Culture

by Aleksei Semenenko

In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis.

Texture Words (Word Play)

by Carrie B. Sheely

Fluffy. Soft. Scaly. Kids encounter many textures in everyday life. Bring texture words to young learners, and watch their vocabularies grow! Words are carefully matched to engaging photos that will keep children captivated from beginning to end.

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