TY  - GEN
T1  - Textual distortion
T2  - Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ;
A2  - Treharne, Elaine M.
A2  - Walker, Greg, 1959-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - D.S. Brewer
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1015888324
AB  - "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 associated with 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 from the 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
OP  - 174
CN  - P47 .T498 2017eb
SN  - 9781787441538
SN  - 1787441539
SN  - 9781843844792
SN  - 1843844796
KW  - Criticism, Textual.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Linguistics : Historical & Comparative.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Criticism, Textual
ER  -