Resisting texts
authority and submission in constructions of meaning
by Peter L. Shillingsburg
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Peter Shillingsburg argues that as humans we are and always will be interested in the past, in what was meant, in what was revealed inadvertently by a text - and that is all to the good. But we learn more and can compare notes better when we understand the principles that govern the ways we read.
Resisting Texts approaches crucial questions about the practice of textual editing and literary criticism by posing questions in the form "If we take such and such to be the goal of our reading, then what will follow from that assumption?".
With humor and a lively imagination, Shillingsburg takes the reader on a fresh theoretical investigation of communication, understanding and misunderstanding, and textual satisfactions, drawing examples from Thackeray, Wordsworth, Melville, and others. Resisting Texts will appeal to all who enjoy the varieties of critical approaches to the written word.
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Editing, Written communication, Discourse analysis, SemanticsShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism)
March 1, 1998, University of Michigan Press
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Resisting texts: authority and submission in constructions of meaning
1997, University of Michigan Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.
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