Theodore Markopoulos
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199539857
- eISBN:
- 9780191716317
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539857.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Historical Linguistics
This bulky chapter is devoted to the examination of Late Medieval Greek (11th–15th c. AD), the first period after late antiquity which provides us with material in a “vernacular” variety of Greek. ...
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This bulky chapter is devoted to the examination of Late Medieval Greek (11th–15th c. AD), the first period after late antiquity which provides us with material in a “vernacular” variety of Greek. The investigation, based on both literary and non‐literary sources, gives new insights into a great variety of issues, such as the semantic development of the μέλλω AVC—illustrated here for the first time. The much discussed and debated “θέ νά” construction is investigated at length, and a new account of its development is proposed, partly based on language contact between Greek‐ and Romance‐speaking populations, a largely unexplored issue.Less
This bulky chapter is devoted to the examination of Late Medieval Greek (11th–15th c. AD), the first period after late antiquity which provides us with material in a “vernacular” variety of Greek. The investigation, based on both literary and non‐literary sources, gives new insights into a great variety of issues, such as the semantic development of the μέλλω AVC—illustrated here for the first time. The much discussed and debated “θέ νά” construction is investigated at length, and a new account of its development is proposed, partly based on language contact between Greek‐ and Romance‐speaking populations, a largely unexplored issue.
Jerrold Levinson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199206179
- eISBN:
- 9780191709982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206179.003.0019
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
This essay briefly restates the view, which locates the meaning of a literary text not in what its author intended it to mean (what one can call ‘utterer's meaning’), nor in what the text might be ...
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This essay briefly restates the view, which locates the meaning of a literary text not in what its author intended it to mean (what one can call ‘utterer's meaning’), nor in what the text might be said to mean as a piece of language in the abstract (what one can call ‘textual meaning’), but roughly in what an appropriate audience would most reasonably hypothesize the contextually situated author to have meant by composing precisely the text that he or she did (what one can call ‘utterance meaning’). It then considers a fair number of objections to the view in the literature and attempts to respond to them.Less
This essay briefly restates the view, which locates the meaning of a literary text not in what its author intended it to mean (what one can call ‘utterer's meaning’), nor in what the text might be said to mean as a piece of language in the abstract (what one can call ‘textual meaning’), but roughly in what an appropriate audience would most reasonably hypothesize the contextually situated author to have meant by composing precisely the text that he or she did (what one can call ‘utterance meaning’). It then considers a fair number of objections to the view in the literature and attempts to respond to them.
Theodore Markopoulos
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199539857
- eISBN:
- 9780191716317
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539857.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Historical Linguistics
This book investigates the development of three future‐referring constructions in Greek, namely “μέλλω / œχω / θέλω + Infinitive / complement clause” in the classical (5th–4th c. BC), the ...
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This book investigates the development of three future‐referring constructions in Greek, namely “μέλλω / œχω / θέλω + Infinitive / complement clause” in the classical (5th–4th c. BC), the Hellenistic–Roman (3rd c. BC–4th c. AD), the Early Medieval (5th–10th c. AD), and the Late Medieval period (11th–15th c. AD). Despite their co‐occurrence in all these periods, it is shown for the first time that these constructions were increasingly differentiated in terms of their semantic, syntactic, and sociolinguistic properties. The analysis sheds new light on these developments, since large parts are based on hitherto unknown material, drawn especially from papyri and non‐literary documents. The investigation is based on the functional–typological perspective of grammaticalization, and it pays particular attention to a variety of—often neglected—factors, such as language contact. The typological predictions concerning future‐referring forms are found lacking in some respects, and various modifications are proposed accordingly.Less
This book investigates the development of three future‐referring constructions in Greek, namely “μέλλω / œχω / θέλω + Infinitive / complement clause” in the classical (5th–4th c. BC), the Hellenistic–Roman (3rd c. BC–4th c. AD), the Early Medieval (5th–10th c. AD), and the Late Medieval period (11th–15th c. AD). Despite their co‐occurrence in all these periods, it is shown for the first time that these constructions were increasingly differentiated in terms of their semantic, syntactic, and sociolinguistic properties. The analysis sheds new light on these developments, since large parts are based on hitherto unknown material, drawn especially from papyri and non‐literary documents. The investigation is based on the functional–typological perspective of grammaticalization, and it pays particular attention to a variety of—often neglected—factors, such as language contact. The typological predictions concerning future‐referring forms are found lacking in some respects, and various modifications are proposed accordingly.
Caroline Levine
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691160627
- eISBN:
- 9781400852604
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691160627.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to make a case for expanding our usual definition of form in literary studies to include patterns of sociopolitical experience like ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to make a case for expanding our usual definition of form in literary studies to include patterns of sociopolitical experience like those of Lowood School. Broadening our definition of form to include social arrangements has immediate methodological consequences. The traditionally troubling gap between the form of the literary text and its content and context dissolves. Formalist analysis turns out to be as valuable to understanding sociopolitical institutions as it is to reading literature. Forms are at work everywhere. Chaotic though it seems, this brief conceptual history does make two things quite clear. First, form has never belonged only to the discourse of aesthetics. Second, all of the historical uses of the term, despite their richness and variety, do share a common definition: “form” always indicates an arrangement of elements—an ordering, patterning, or shaping.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to make a case for expanding our usual definition of form in literary studies to include patterns of sociopolitical experience like those of Lowood School. Broadening our definition of form to include social arrangements has immediate methodological consequences. The traditionally troubling gap between the form of the literary text and its content and context dissolves. Formalist analysis turns out to be as valuable to understanding sociopolitical institutions as it is to reading literature. Forms are at work everywhere. Chaotic though it seems, this brief conceptual history does make two things quite clear. First, form has never belonged only to the discourse of aesthetics. Second, all of the historical uses of the term, despite their richness and variety, do share a common definition: “form” always indicates an arrangement of elements—an ordering, patterning, or shaping.
Ann Jefferson
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263181
- eISBN:
- 9780191734595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263181.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Biography seemed to have little to offer in comparison to literature itself. From this perspective, it is perceived as being at best marginal to literature, and at worst as antithetical to the ...
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Biography seemed to have little to offer in comparison to literature itself. From this perspective, it is perceived as being at best marginal to literature, and at worst as antithetical to the literary. This negative relation is predominant in the French tradition, where writers themselves have repeatedly and vehemently protested against what they perceived as extraneous imposition of the ‘life’ onto the literary ‘work’. This chapter addresses whether biography has any critical validity in the study of literary texts, when their prime concern is considered by the critical parti pris and by their authors to be aesthetic. In it, the focus is on Sainte-Beuve, the founder and exemplar of the biological approach to literary criticism. The chapter determines whether and how his method acquired general critical validity, what its critical presuppositions were, and how it conceived of literature and the literary.Less
Biography seemed to have little to offer in comparison to literature itself. From this perspective, it is perceived as being at best marginal to literature, and at worst as antithetical to the literary. This negative relation is predominant in the French tradition, where writers themselves have repeatedly and vehemently protested against what they perceived as extraneous imposition of the ‘life’ onto the literary ‘work’. This chapter addresses whether biography has any critical validity in the study of literary texts, when their prime concern is considered by the critical parti pris and by their authors to be aesthetic. In it, the focus is on Sainte-Beuve, the founder and exemplar of the biological approach to literary criticism. The chapter determines whether and how his method acquired general critical validity, what its critical presuppositions were, and how it conceived of literature and the literary.
John Kerrigan
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199248513
- eISBN:
- 9780191697753
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248513.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter discusses constructing texts from the Renaissance period. It has been noted that the practice of editing literary texts went through a period of transformation from the 1920s to the ...
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This chapter discusses constructing texts from the Renaissance period. It has been noted that the practice of editing literary texts went through a period of transformation from the 1920s to the 1930s, thanks to the researches of W. W. Greg, Alfred W. Pollard, and R. B. McKerrow. These three were able to formulate certain principles that continued to shape editorial thinking across several post-medieval periods.Less
This chapter discusses constructing texts from the Renaissance period. It has been noted that the practice of editing literary texts went through a period of transformation from the 1920s to the 1930s, thanks to the researches of W. W. Greg, Alfred W. Pollard, and R. B. McKerrow. These three were able to formulate certain principles that continued to shape editorial thinking across several post-medieval periods.
David Shepherd
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198156666
- eISBN:
- 9780191673221
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198156666.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Soviet metafiction. It suggests that Soviet metafiction compel readers to recognize that contexts are no less important than texts and discusses ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Soviet metafiction. It suggests that Soviet metafiction compel readers to recognize that contexts are no less important than texts and discusses the case of socially situated readers. It shows how far beyond established notions of metafiction self-conscious Soviet writing takes its readers. It concludes that it is important for readers to be concerned about the factors commonly held to be extraneous or even inimical to the proper functions of literature.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Soviet metafiction. It suggests that Soviet metafiction compel readers to recognize that contexts are no less important than texts and discusses the case of socially situated readers. It shows how far beyond established notions of metafiction self-conscious Soviet writing takes its readers. It concludes that it is important for readers to be concerned about the factors commonly held to be extraneous or even inimical to the proper functions of literature.
Anne Whitehead
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748618576
- eISBN:
- 9780748651726
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748618576.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together to focus on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and ...
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The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together to focus on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides readings of texts by Pat Barker, Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W. G. Sebald and Binjamin Wilkomirski. The book also considers the ways in which trauma has affected fictional form, exploring how novelists have responded to the challenge of writing traumatic narratives and identifying the key stylistic features associated with the genre. In addition, it introduces the reader to key critics in the field of trauma theory such as Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Geoffrey Hartman. The linking of trauma theory and literary texts not only sheds light on works of contemporary fiction, it also points to the inherent connections between trauma theory and the literary, which have often been overlooked. The distinction between literary theme and style in the book opens up major questions regarding the nature of trauma itself. Trauma, like the novels discussed, is shown to take an uncertain but productive place between content and form.Less
The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together to focus on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides readings of texts by Pat Barker, Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W. G. Sebald and Binjamin Wilkomirski. The book also considers the ways in which trauma has affected fictional form, exploring how novelists have responded to the challenge of writing traumatic narratives and identifying the key stylistic features associated with the genre. In addition, it introduces the reader to key critics in the field of trauma theory such as Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Geoffrey Hartman. The linking of trauma theory and literary texts not only sheds light on works of contemporary fiction, it also points to the inherent connections between trauma theory and the literary, which have often been overlooked. The distinction between literary theme and style in the book opens up major questions regarding the nature of trauma itself. Trauma, like the novels discussed, is shown to take an uncertain but productive place between content and form.
Andrew Bennett
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074875
- eISBN:
- 9781781702420
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074875.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter addresses the question of literary ignorance, which is also a question of reading. It shows that reading begins in ignorance, in the search for answers or enlightenment, but that there ...
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This chapter addresses the question of literary ignorance, which is also a question of reading. It shows that reading begins in ignorance, in the search for answers or enlightenment, but that there are some kinds of reader that do not desire knowledge. Aside from being a question of reading, Plato suggests that literary ignorance is also a condition of a certain conception of writing and of authorship. The chapter examines one way to approach literary agnoiology and one problem raised by certain conceptions of the literary. Finally, it also considers a major question of a study of literary ignorance, which is concerned with the question of the knowledge allowed by literary texts.Less
This chapter addresses the question of literary ignorance, which is also a question of reading. It shows that reading begins in ignorance, in the search for answers or enlightenment, but that there are some kinds of reader that do not desire knowledge. Aside from being a question of reading, Plato suggests that literary ignorance is also a condition of a certain conception of writing and of authorship. The chapter examines one way to approach literary agnoiology and one problem raised by certain conceptions of the literary. Finally, it also considers a major question of a study of literary ignorance, which is concerned with the question of the knowledge allowed by literary texts.
Kam Louie (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028412
- eISBN:
- 9789882206960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028412.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter examines biliteracy or bilingualism not through code mixing but the multifocal lens of translation. The chapter forges connections between biliteracy and cultural identity, and traces ...
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This chapter examines biliteracy or bilingualism not through code mixing but the multifocal lens of translation. The chapter forges connections between biliteracy and cultural identity, and traces how cultural hybridity emerges from the exchange between Chinese and English. The dynamic changes in translation studies in recent decades make its choice even more compelling. Besides having outcomes for translation practice, these changes also generate conceptual rethinking that affiliates with critical and cultural theories. The chapter gives an account of recent translation studies and delineates the critical issues about language and cultural identity that it raises. These issues frame detailed discussions of three sets of Hong Kong literary texts in both Chinese and English as instantiations of biliteracy; each of these sets can posit a way of seeing, or a modality, of biliteracy. Translation studies can help disclose the insights of these modalities for both language use and cultural identity.Less
This chapter examines biliteracy or bilingualism not through code mixing but the multifocal lens of translation. The chapter forges connections between biliteracy and cultural identity, and traces how cultural hybridity emerges from the exchange between Chinese and English. The dynamic changes in translation studies in recent decades make its choice even more compelling. Besides having outcomes for translation practice, these changes also generate conceptual rethinking that affiliates with critical and cultural theories. The chapter gives an account of recent translation studies and delineates the critical issues about language and cultural identity that it raises. These issues frame detailed discussions of three sets of Hong Kong literary texts in both Chinese and English as instantiations of biliteracy; each of these sets can posit a way of seeing, or a modality, of biliteracy. Translation studies can help disclose the insights of these modalities for both language use and cultural identity.
Joad Raymond
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199282340
- eISBN:
- 9780191700194
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282340.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This introductory chapter first sets out the focus of the book, namely newsbooks printed in Britain in the 1640s. It addresses newsbooks as a literary and material form, as books that were produced, ...
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This introductory chapter first sets out the focus of the book, namely newsbooks printed in Britain in the 1640s. It addresses newsbooks as a literary and material form, as books that were produced, circulated, and received in a society. Newsbooks are not simply historical documents the value of which is proportional to the degree of truth they contain; rather they are literary texts, which can provide historical information. Read against the grain of their authors' intentions they reveal much about the culture of print in the 1640s.Less
This introductory chapter first sets out the focus of the book, namely newsbooks printed in Britain in the 1640s. It addresses newsbooks as a literary and material form, as books that were produced, circulated, and received in a society. Newsbooks are not simply historical documents the value of which is proportional to the degree of truth they contain; rather they are literary texts, which can provide historical information. Read against the grain of their authors' intentions they reveal much about the culture of print in the 1640s.
Kathleen Parthé
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300098518
- eISBN:
- 9780300138221
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300098518.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter describes a paradigm for the political reading of literary texts in Russia and demonstrates how its existence is confirmed by its reflection in parody. It explains that the subversive ...
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This chapter describes a paradigm for the political reading of literary texts in Russia and demonstrates how its existence is confirmed by its reflection in parody. It explains that the subversive message in the so-called dangerous texts is not readily visible and discusses Russian writers' use of the paraliterary space. The chapter also discusses how Vasily Aksenov, Vladimir Voinovich, Andrei Sinyavsky, and other writers both lived through and laughed at the excesses of their text-centered, authoritarian nation.Less
This chapter describes a paradigm for the political reading of literary texts in Russia and demonstrates how its existence is confirmed by its reflection in parody. It explains that the subversive message in the so-called dangerous texts is not readily visible and discusses Russian writers' use of the paraliterary space. The chapter also discusses how Vasily Aksenov, Vladimir Voinovich, Andrei Sinyavsky, and other writers both lived through and laughed at the excesses of their text-centered, authoritarian nation.
Jason Lawrence
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719069147
- eISBN:
- 9781781702543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719069147.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter examines how teachers of Italian language in England encouraged their private students and readers alike to attempt translation exercises both from and into the target language as an ...
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This chapter examines how teachers of Italian language in England encouraged their private students and readers alike to attempt translation exercises both from and into the target language as an essential element of their language-learning habits. The language-learning process emphasized Italian literary texts, particularly the vernacular poetry of Petrarch. This chapter suggests that the English desire to read Italian fluently in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was predicated primarily on a specifically literary interest.Less
This chapter examines how teachers of Italian language in England encouraged their private students and readers alike to attempt translation exercises both from and into the target language as an essential element of their language-learning habits. The language-learning process emphasized Italian literary texts, particularly the vernacular poetry of Petrarch. This chapter suggests that the English desire to read Italian fluently in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was predicated primarily on a specifically literary interest.
Carolyn M. Jones
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199732869
- eISBN:
- 9780199918522
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732869.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Undergraduate Research that employs cultural studies seeks to interpret social constructions pertaining to individual and communal identity and the sociopolitical forces that shape them. This chapter ...
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Undergraduate Research that employs cultural studies seeks to interpret social constructions pertaining to individual and communal identity and the sociopolitical forces that shape them. This chapter describes the application of the cultural studies model to religious constructions in literary texts.Less
Undergraduate Research that employs cultural studies seeks to interpret social constructions pertaining to individual and communal identity and the sociopolitical forces that shape them. This chapter describes the application of the cultural studies model to religious constructions in literary texts.
Eddie Tay
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028740
- eISBN:
- 9789882206762
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028740.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on identity anxiety, intellectual heritage and the post-colonial experience of Singapore and Malaysia as reflected in their local ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on identity anxiety, intellectual heritage and the post-colonial experience of Singapore and Malaysia as reflected in their local literature. This study has traced through a range of Anglophone literary texts of Malaya and those of post-independence Singapore and Malaysia a history of anxiety that attends the condition of being not-at-home. The findings also indicate that most colonialist writings and those literatures written after colonialism depict a situation in which cultural signs are continuously formulated, investigated, and reformulated.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on identity anxiety, intellectual heritage and the post-colonial experience of Singapore and Malaysia as reflected in their local literature. This study has traced through a range of Anglophone literary texts of Malaya and those of post-independence Singapore and Malaysia a history of anxiety that attends the condition of being not-at-home. The findings also indicate that most colonialist writings and those literatures written after colonialism depict a situation in which cultural signs are continuously formulated, investigated, and reformulated.
Daniel Brudney
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226924939
- eISBN:
- 9780226924946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226924946.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
Literary texts and legal texts share certain similarities, as the past thirty years have often urged. Both require a certain interpretive engagement to be able to understand the text's implications, ...
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Literary texts and legal texts share certain similarities, as the past thirty years have often urged. Both require a certain interpretive engagement to be able to understand the text's implications, while at the same time being faithful to it. This chapter, however, takes the differences that distinguish the legal and literary text from one another. It should be kept in mind, for example, that the literary text is an aesthetic object whereas the legal text is not. The chapter examines Shakespeare's King Lear as well as Macbeth, among other texts, in order to map out the distinctions between the two. One distinction that it lays out is the different models of interpretation between literature and law.Less
Literary texts and legal texts share certain similarities, as the past thirty years have often urged. Both require a certain interpretive engagement to be able to understand the text's implications, while at the same time being faithful to it. This chapter, however, takes the differences that distinguish the legal and literary text from one another. It should be kept in mind, for example, that the literary text is an aesthetic object whereas the legal text is not. The chapter examines Shakespeare's King Lear as well as Macbeth, among other texts, in order to map out the distinctions between the two. One distinction that it lays out is the different models of interpretation between literature and law.
Matthew B. Roller
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691178004
- eISBN:
- 9781400888245
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691178004.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter analyzes the link between reclining dining and otium within three types of media: literary texts, funerary monuments, and wall paintings. These media are treated separately not only ...
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This chapter analyzes the link between reclining dining and otium within three types of media: literary texts, funerary monuments, and wall paintings. These media are treated separately not only because they emerge from and address themselves to different social strata, but also because each medium has a distinctive place in the spaces and rhythms of everyday Roman life. Thus, to discuss representations of reclining dining in the different media is also to discuss different producers, consumers, settings, and meanings for these representations, even though the activity represented in each case is broadly the same. These representations do allow for synthesis and cross-illumination, but only after the fundamental differences are carefully accounted for.Less
This chapter analyzes the link between reclining dining and otium within three types of media: literary texts, funerary monuments, and wall paintings. These media are treated separately not only because they emerge from and address themselves to different social strata, but also because each medium has a distinctive place in the spaces and rhythms of everyday Roman life. Thus, to discuss representations of reclining dining in the different media is also to discuss different producers, consumers, settings, and meanings for these representations, even though the activity represented in each case is broadly the same. These representations do allow for synthesis and cross-illumination, but only after the fundamental differences are carefully accounted for.
Mary Poovey (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226675329
- eISBN:
- 9780226675213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226675213.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This interchapter continues the discussion of reading, focusing on the ways that contemporary literary critics' treatments of texts differ so radically from the way readers not disciplined by ...
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This interchapter continues the discussion of reading, focusing on the ways that contemporary literary critics' treatments of texts differ so radically from the way readers not disciplined by graduate training read. It engages one variant of professional literary reading/writing—which is sometimes called New Historicism, sometimes called discourse analysis—in order to explore some of the problems that arise when even expert readers try to use the textual interpretations such theoretically sophisticated practices yield to generate historical narratives.Less
This interchapter continues the discussion of reading, focusing on the ways that contemporary literary critics' treatments of texts differ so radically from the way readers not disciplined by graduate training read. It engages one variant of professional literary reading/writing—which is sometimes called New Historicism, sometimes called discourse analysis—in order to explore some of the problems that arise when even expert readers try to use the textual interpretations such theoretically sophisticated practices yield to generate historical narratives.
Lucy Bending
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187172
- eISBN:
- 9780191674648
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187172.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This book presents a study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late Victorian writing, placing literary texts alongside sermons, ...
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This book presents a study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late Victorian writing, placing literary texts alongside sermons, medical textbooks, and campaigning leaflets in order to suggest patterns of presentation and evasion to be perceived throughout the different texts assembled. Pain is not a shared, cross-cultural phenomenon and this book uses the examples of fire-walking, flogging, and tattooing to show that, despite the fact that pain is often invoked as a marker of shared human identity, understandings of pain are sharply affected by class, gender, race, and supposed degree of criminality. In arguing this case, this book claims that there is no language for pain that is taken seriously. However, the importance of this book lies in its exploration of the ways in which the seemingly incommunicable experience of bodily suffering can be conveyed.Less
This book presents a study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late Victorian writing, placing literary texts alongside sermons, medical textbooks, and campaigning leaflets in order to suggest patterns of presentation and evasion to be perceived throughout the different texts assembled. Pain is not a shared, cross-cultural phenomenon and this book uses the examples of fire-walking, flogging, and tattooing to show that, despite the fact that pain is often invoked as a marker of shared human identity, understandings of pain are sharply affected by class, gender, race, and supposed degree of criminality. In arguing this case, this book claims that there is no language for pain that is taken seriously. However, the importance of this book lies in its exploration of the ways in which the seemingly incommunicable experience of bodily suffering can be conveyed.
Jonathan Goldberg
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232215
- eISBN:
- 9780823241217
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823232215.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary — works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others — it is framed by political considerations, ...
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This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary — works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others — it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that denied any constitutional act to private consensual acts that the court termed “homosexual sodomy” and the rhetoric attaching sodomy to Saddam Hussein in the initial U.S. war in Iraq. The book takes as axiomatic Foucault's description of sodomy as “that utterly confused category.” Without collapsing questions of historical difference, it works to articulate relations between the early modern period and our own, between a time before the homo/heterosexual divide and the modern regimes that assume it. In this book, sodometries (a Renaissance word for “sodomy” chosen for its nonce-word suggestiveness) are sites of complications around definitions of sex and gender. Because “sodomy” is not a term capable of singular definition, representations of sodomy are never direct. Sodomy exists only relationally. Three social domains for textual production are explored in this book: the sixteenth-century English court as the location of high literariness; the theater, especially as a site for controversy around cross-dressing; the New World as the place where the slaughter of native populations (and, in New England, of Englishmen as well) was carried out in the name of ridding the hemisphere of sodomites. These lethal impulses are read as foundational for a U.S. imaginary still operative in many powerful quarters.Less
This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary — works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others — it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick that denied any constitutional act to private consensual acts that the court termed “homosexual sodomy” and the rhetoric attaching sodomy to Saddam Hussein in the initial U.S. war in Iraq. The book takes as axiomatic Foucault's description of sodomy as “that utterly confused category.” Without collapsing questions of historical difference, it works to articulate relations between the early modern period and our own, between a time before the homo/heterosexual divide and the modern regimes that assume it. In this book, sodometries (a Renaissance word for “sodomy” chosen for its nonce-word suggestiveness) are sites of complications around definitions of sex and gender. Because “sodomy” is not a term capable of singular definition, representations of sodomy are never direct. Sodomy exists only relationally. Three social domains for textual production are explored in this book: the sixteenth-century English court as the location of high literariness; the theater, especially as a site for controversy around cross-dressing; the New World as the place where the slaughter of native populations (and, in New England, of Englishmen as well) was carried out in the name of ridding the hemisphere of sodomites. These lethal impulses are read as foundational for a U.S. imaginary still operative in many powerful quarters.
