Word: textuality
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PLEASE ALLOW MY DAUGHTER TO BUY CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S HIT SINGLE "GENIE IN A BOTTLE." AFTER CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS, I'VE CONCLUDED THAT THE LYRIC "RUB ME THE RIGHT WAY" IS NOT CHARMLESS INNUENDO, BUT RATHER THAT IT DESCRIBES THE MOST COMMON METHOD FOR RELEASING GENIES FROM BOTTLES...
...stomach cancer when he was 21--five weeks after his father died of lung cancer. Eggers thus became the guardian of his eight-year-old brother Toph (short for Christopher) and moved from suburban Chicago to California. It's a hilarious book, despite the subject, that applies McSweeney's textual slyness full-force. The acknowledgments contain a guide to themes and symbols (and a chart of his advance and expenses), and his subjects frequently break out of character to note how Eggers has altered events...
...looked at Dario's collected poems and found that two had been previously published," he says. "Here were the earliest known drafts with textual differences, but the final two I couldn't find anywhere. They were presumably unknown and unpublished...
...discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 would throw light on the roots of Christianity. There was speculation that perhaps John the Baptist and even Jesus himself were members of the sect or closely related to it. The scrolls have already contributed to a fuller understanding of the textual history of Jewish scripture and the realities of 1st century Judaism--especially its variety of apocalyptic hopes and the absence of anything that might be called orthodoxy. However, they have shed no direct light on Jesus. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts, discovered by Egyptian farmers in 1945, also proved of interest...
...Kugel pays special attention to issues of philological and linguistic debate and includes detailed notes on his own poetic renderings. Indeed, it is often through these remarks on verbal etymology and evolution, rather than in passages of criticism, that the reader gains the most insight into the complexities of textual interpretation...