Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question...
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of ...
Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from Aelfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive over...
-Distortion- of any kind, including the textual, is nearly always understood as negative: it can be defined as perversion, unnoticed alteration, impairment, caricature, twisting, corruption, misrepresentation, deviation. It might be said to create a form of the original (factual, true, authentic, real) that is not transubstantive as such, but warped, misshapen, skewed, shrunken, amplified, or simulated. In textual studies, one might argue, in fact, that all transmission is distorted - either through mediation, appropriation, colonisation, digitisation, or through misunderstanding, lack of...
-Distortion- of any kind, including the textual, is nearly always understood as negative: it can be defined as perversion, unnoticed alteration, impai...
