1 See his 'Bothe Texte and Glose: Manuscript Form, the
Textuality of Commentary and Chaucer's Dream Poems', in The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies, ed.
The material in this compilation does not always open up new and intriguing ground in the study and analysis of
textuality and orality, but all the writing is competent, and there is a cohesion in the structure and thematic focus of the book that makes a reading of it quite satisfying.
The poems confront and then conflate sexuality and
textuality ("subtext kutan").
In contrast with Christian traditions, which stressed the incarnation of the divine in the material reality of the world, the Jews understand that "the primary reality was linguistic; true being was a God who speaks and creates texts, and imitatio deus was not silent suffering."(4) From the point of view of a German notion of Wissenschaft, such a fetish of
textuality would seem an impediment to research into the objective world outside of us, into the ontological realm that allegedly precedes its textual mediation or representation.
All generally agree that discourse analysts "point to the importance of
textuality, to the ways arguments are structured and presented as well as to what is literally said" and to the value of these contributions.(1) William Sewell's genial, hopeful, and useful opening essay suggests ways in which labor historians should combine linguistic, economic, and political struggles in their work.
There follows an interrogation of the |pop character of
textuality'(p.
Virginal Sexuality and
Textuality in Victorian Literature, ed.
One chapter looks at memory,
textuality and intertextuality.
Recent poststructuralist criticism has take this undecidability as an allegory of
textuality and reading, especially Shoshana Felman's "Turning the Screw of Interpretation," in Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise (1982), which diagnoses the interpretive battle generated by the tale as a ghost effect akin to the hauntings within the tale itself.
Approaches to Videogame Discourse: Lexis, Interaction,
Textuality