Search Results for textual authority and interpretation

... literary scholarship, came to be seen as a product rather than a subject, generated by the editor’s interpretive construction of the text. As Tim William Machan observes, “Medieval vernacular authors . . . despite textual and cultural evidence, had to be created as an editorial and interpretive...

.... It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. authorial intention textual authority and interpretation history of criticism postmodernism Almost every interpretative university discipline in or adjacent to the Humanities makes routine, unproblematic appeal to intention...

... activity we call interpretation. One of the most fundamental tenets in literary studies is the distinction between author and narrator. Every first-year student learns that the author, a real-life and empirical being, is not and cannot be, ontologically, located in the text itself; rather...

..., which are themselves copies of other authors texts or are related to Bale and Beebe / Pilgrimage and Textual Culture 3 them. This was clearly a codex produced in the Holy Land about the Holy Land, but it is far from being a diary, written as the pilgrim walked through the holy sites; rather...

... of interpretation, since judges do not legislate, but rather enforce legislation. Acutely aware of the invasive tendencies of intuitive interpreta- tion (especially intentionalism), this is what Lord Reid said in 1975 about the textual prerogatives of judges: We often say that we are looking...

... between medieval authors and their textual personae encourages research into life-records and historical documents, some of which open up interpretive trajectories that are supported by an evidentiary weight that cannot be explained away as coincidental, even though it does not pass the threshold...

... tone of the saying, its effectiveness depends upon the civic surface having sufficient recognition as a medium of textual communication to sustain the analogy. Perhaps inevitably antiquarians, who were themselves engaged in authoring works which claim authority in the interpretation of the civic...

... that guarantee cultural authenticity in modernity, for example, authorship, language, or national boundaries, are more often than not unfixed and indeterminate in early medieval textuality. Nonethe- less, there is a need to authorize and impose cultural worth on even the most...

... by Augustine's example of reading a psalm well known to him in Confessions 11.28.38, Brian Stock has shown that Augustine's account of attention is closely associated with his theory of textual interpretation. 46 Augustine's “act” of attentive reading is “stretched” in “two ways”: “into my memory because...

... male-­ and female- ­authored mysticism, one should look at how the text invokes similar content but by different means. The body and letter are involved in a poetic work that negotiates with a prohibition from scriptural interpretation in the guise of scriptural application.19 Scripture...

... to questions about authorial intent and reader response) relates to whose interpretation should be prioritized — doctor’s or patient’s? Both are “reading” the body and the mind of the sufferer, but with different vantage points, presumptions, and authority. In the twenty-­ first century, medical...

... Browne’s poem turns upon a striking image of textual embodiment; indeed, Browne ventures to name the authorial “limbe” in question rather more specifically: To the deceased Author, Upon the Promiscuous printing of his Poems, the Looser sort...

.... [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 medieval scholastic literary theory authorial intention textual authority biblical hermeneutics truth and meaning Writing shortly after 1150, Dominicus Gundissalinus declared that, for the reader of a text, the intention...

...Ineke Murakami; Donovan Sherman The field of performance studies has invigorated premodern scholarship by directing critical attention to live, ephemeral events that unsettle the textual archive. This special issue of JMEMS builds on this work by stepping away from the usual emphasis on theater...

... successors to describe and model the very irrecuperability of manuscript culture's alternative systems for organizing textual authority, which efforts have bound medieval studies to a sort of virtual network of self-analysis that navigates between the permanent opacity of the archival evidence itself...

... modern” in English drama studies. This essay examines the Ches- ter cycle’s transformation from medieval to early modern drama in light of the instabilities and complexities of sixteenth-century religious culture, pay- ing particular attention to constraints on interpretation posed by these insta...

... of the contemplative textual tradition, both the act and the teaching of contemplation are participatory and performative. 7 My own approach, in contrast to Johnson's, involves a more detailed engagement with the Cloud -author's own reflections upon his contemplative pedagogy, practice, and even theology. He...

... interpretive questions and different modes of textual engagement. It first presents a brief survey of books catalogued as Wycliffite bibles, highlighting the diverse forms in which Wycliffite translation appears. It then shows common patterns of reading, evident across a range of books, that seek to integrate...

... argues that didactic textual representations of dancing reveal elements of lived religion. The imagined dancing in preachers’ exempla served as a warning against illicit behavior, while for the audience it could evoke corporeal praying and an alternative way of celebrating liturgical feasts. Both...

... the author to restore to readers’ minds the right disposition he wants them to internalize, the humble living of Christ. The author corrects this misunderstanding about what poverty of the spirit means, and he also trains the reader to better interpret both textual and nontextual religious signs. While...