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Textual Distortion (Hardcover)
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Textual Distortion (Hardcover)
Series: Essays and Studies
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The notion of what it means to "distort" a text is here explored
through a rich variety of individual case studies. Distortion is
nearly always understood as negative. It can be defined as
perversion, impairment, caricature, corruption, misrepresentation,
or deviation. Unlike its close neighbour, "disruption", it remains
resolutely associatedwith the undesirable, the lost, or the
deceptive. Yet it is also part of a larger knowledge system,
filling the gap between the authentic event and its experience; it
has its own ethics and practice, and it is necessarily incorporated
in all meaningful communication. Need it always be a negative
phenomenon? How does distortion affect producers, transmitters and
receivers of texts? Are we always obliged to acknowledge
distortion? What effect does a distortive process have on the
intentionality, materiality and functionality, not to say the
cultural, intellectual and market value, of all textual objects?
The essays in this volume seek to address these questions,They
range fromthe medieval through the early modern to contemporary
periods and, throughout, deliberately challenge periodisation and
the canonical. Topics treated include Anglo-Saxon manuscripts,
Reformation documents and poems, Global Shakespeare, the Oxford
English Dictionary, Native American spiritual objects, and digital
tools for re-envisioning textual relationships. From the written to
the spoken, the inhabited object to the remediated, distortion is
demonstrated to demand a rich and provocative mode of analysis.
Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities,
Professor of English, Director of the Centre for Spatial and
Textual Analysis, and Director of Stanford Technologies at Stanford
University; Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English
Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Contributors: Matthew
Aiello, Emma Cayley, Aaron Kelly, Daeyeong (Dan) Kim, Sarah
Ogilvie, Timothy Powell, Giovanni Scorcioni, Greg Walker, Claude
Willan.
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