Word: textual
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With a very serious expression, Segal responded that he had just solved a “crux” in Thucydides, meaning a textual problem that had baffled generations of scholars...
...translation of a dead mother’s diaries (written in Korean) and the resulting love triangle that develops among the mother (in the form of her writing), the translator and the daughter (an archivist and the narrator). So basically it’s about language, obsessions with textual characters, a threesome with your mom and lots of paper. A major part of the novel is the family story, typically dysfunctional and told through the daughter’s memories triggered by the diary entries...
...acquisition, Gates began the arduous process of authenticating the manuscript. He explained that his verification process entailed “lining up” the events, times and places in the text and comparing them to known historical facts. If the purported origin of the text is genuine, the textual and factual details “will look like mirror images,” he said...
...fact, to preserve the theoretical intentions of his piece "Sliding Down a Volcano With Kleenex Boxes as Skis," Lawrence Weimer resorts to a textual caption, since the visual image itself is apparently not enough. The drawing is strictly geometrical and almost devoid of a visual subject matter. Three bold black curves, each crowned with an unassuming hexagon, cut large swaths across the page (not, mind you, the canvass), and converge on a fourth prosaic stroke. It is almost entirely visually uninteresting and the negative space accounts for the vast majority of the framed image. It represents a feat...
...best reason to be glad we have Calasso is that he represents an antidote to the most common error on the modern lit-criticism scene: that of dissecting a text until it is nothing more than a series of textual moments made to be deconstructed, rather than a living, breathing emotional experience. In Literature and the Gods, Calasso goes too far in the opposite direction, letting himself get bowled over by the mystical alchemy that happens in good literature, but at least it’s in the opposite direction...