... adjustments in the fields of textual scholarship and editing since the early 1980s. The present article delineates the theoretical parallels between New Historicism as a revisionist critical paradigm and “New Textualism” as its bibliographical counterpart. These approaches are distinguished from the purely...

... testimony about the production and circulation of samizdat in the USSR and in the West. Juxtaposing the theory of gift giving with new critical approaches to book history, textual culture, and bibliography, the article aims to highlight the interest of personal testimony and material texts in a critical...

... and the Giants: Textual and Bibliographical Studies and the Interpretation of Literary Works .” In Textual Criticism and Literary Interpretation , edited by McGann Jerome , 69 – 89 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . McGann Jerome . 1992 . The Textual Condition . Princeton, NJ...

... to what in my title I call ‘‘the mechanics of culture by which I mean to refer to two agents of cultural production: contemporary textual critics and members of the early modern London book trade. The first, by way of allusion...

...), national thought, as one of the most pervasive and enduring cultural ideologies, should be critically and systematically studied in its literary manifestation. In order to propose an agenda for such a study, I survey the existing constructivist and structuralist literary practice, drawing two general...

...Lauren Shohet Andrew Marvell's “Upon Appleton House” meditates on when and how forms and events become meaningful. The poem reveals the limitations of criticism that assumes rather than questions what constitutes history. Drawing on the literary-historical conventions of its inherited country house...

... technically, shows how one can mimic the device and use it to create something else. The young girl first uses her father and dead mother’s pictures to comment on the effect of bad framing in one Louvel • Photography as Critical Idiom and Intermedial Criticism 43 of the textual...

... than viewing the constraint as a literary technique, the authors argue that it is also relevant to other, nonliterary phenomena, for example, to the theater. There the idea of constraint can be put to use as a tool for theoretical reflection on and critical or historical analysis of performance...

... published and unpublished seminars that Derrida delivered chiefly in Europe and North America. Highlights of the various essays are reviewed and at various points some few issues of a critical nature are raised for consideration. The seminars Life Death (1975–76), Hospitality (1995–96) and Death Penalty...

... to the interdisciplinary field of cognitive studies a reservoir of potential insights into the embodied interconnectivity of cognitive process together with a critical language which is enactive, context oriented, sensitive to the conditions of live cultural ecologies. The essay features textual examples drawn from...

...” or “authorial” reader (critics who try to enter that position). The constructivist approach, by contrast, is also concerned with how actual readers try to resolve textual problems with different integration mechanisms. The present study defines and explores autobiographical unreliability in relation to both...

... of the New World (Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon). 1994 “`Intensifying the Surprise as well as the School': Stephen Greenblatt Interviewed by Noel King,” Textual Practice 8 (1): 114 -27. 1997 “What Is the History of Literature?” Critical Inquiry 23 : 460 -81. 2000a “The Touch of the Real...

... is one to negotiate or manage such flux?Critics tend to select “key” lines or passages, treating these as interpretative centers or “nodes” around which to organize the heterogeneous materials of the poem. Other materials come to be subordinated in various ways (explicitly or, more often, implicitly...

...Andrew Cowell This article examines the earliest examples of advertising and consumer commodities in medieval texts in relation to twentieth-century critical theories of the social role of advertising and its relation to both“literature” and “rhetoric.” It discusses the ways advertising...

... dating back to German classicism. Having mapped the connections between these traditions, this essay then concentrates on exploring how narratology, unlike German narrative theory, has come to broaden its project exponentially since its first critical incarnation as a strictly formalist poetics. While...

... that the two might get along more equitably. But a commensurate risk is posed by confining psychoanalysis to textual matters. For critics, disposed to questions of writing andwriters, it has been all too easy to prove Freudmerely literary, tomirror our avoidance of scientific, humanistic, therapeutic...

..., and the Environment .” In The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism , edited by Blake Thomas Wehrs Donald , 827 – 54 . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Gallese Vittorio . 2011 . “ Mirror Neurons and Art .” In Art and the Senses , edited by Bacci Francesca...

... birth all while economic inequality only increased, and environmental destruction and political hostility persisted unabated. Yet literary studies departments are often late in remembering or acknowledging the lasting impact of Marxist thought throughout the history of literary criticism and textual...

... . The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Weik von Mossner Alexa . 2014 . Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination . Austin : University of Texas Press . Wetherell Margaret . 2012 . Affect...

... textual criticism of The Song of Roland, which superseded the predominant German editions of the medieval epic, thus contributing to its adoption in France as a national epic and an anchor for national identity. The second half of the book explores, as the editors put it in the introduc- tion...