Word: textualism
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...with pedantry that the 258-volume series will be virtually useless. Reviewing one of the volumes already published, William Dean Howells' Their Wedding Journey (Indiana University; $10), Wilson dismisses the project as "a waste of time and money." He claims that its high price tag and its elaborate textual commentary will mean that only Ph.D. candidates are likely to buy it, while such works should be designed for general readers as well...
...mechanical level Anouilh feels no need to explain how the letters to Bonfant find their way into Madame Mlle, de Ste. Euverte's hands, on a textual level he feels no qualms about using the term 'soul' to explain contradictory situations. When Anouilh wants to indulge in a dissertation about 'honor' he so indulges, forming such a situation even though nothing of the resulting discussion between the General and his Secretary is coherently related to the characters or the action of the rest of the play. This is not a fault--it is just another style of writing plays...
...Brubeck's oratorio attested the composer's solid training as a serious musician, mostly under the eye of the French master Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. In twelve extensive, complex vocal movements, it traces a series of meditations on the universality of faith, with textual fragments drawn by Brubeck and his wife lola from the Gospels and Psalms. What little jazz there is in the score is far removed from the usual Brubeck sophistication: it is a more primitive, elemental sort, blended with folk overtones (including, at one point, a bit of Turkey...
...Dead Sea scrolls provide information other than textual history of the Bible. All the scrolls from the first century B.C. are ruins from the library of the Essene Jews. According to Cross, these were the "leftists" of the first century B.C., who lived with the certainty that at any moment "the angels of God, the heavenly host, would fight the final battle with Satan and his forces" and the Messianic Age would be realized...
...said earlier, since there is only one source for the text, and that a corrupt one, Macbeth has provided a field day for textual emendators. In Macbeth's famous remark, "My way of life/Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf," Houseman has adopted Dr. Johnson's emendation of "May" for "way." In the same speech, the Folio offers, "This push/Will cheere me ever, or dis-eate me now." Among the conjectures are "disease," "disseize," "defeat," and "dis-ease." I myself like to understand "chair" (which was pronounced "cheer" then), with which "disseat" makes perfect sense. Houseman too settles...