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intra- +‎ textual

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Examples

  • Where gilding and bumphing are employed, we may see a deliberate thematic import to these, with the former used to imbue the worldscape with a relevant aesthetic, and the latter used as intratextual commentary.

    Notes on Worldscape Hal Duncan 2009

  • Where gilding and bumphing are employed, we may see a deliberate thematic import to these, with the former used to imbue the worldscape with a relevant aesthetic, and the latter used as intratextual commentary.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  •                         FURTHER NOTE: God lives in the footnotes (but not intratextual notes such as this, so God is not here).

    Distractus Refractus Ontologicus: The Dissemination of Michael Martone 2009

  • FURTHER NOTE: God lives in the footnotes (but not intratextual notes such as this, so God is not here).

    Distractus Refractus Ontologicus: The Dissemination of Michael Martone 2009

  • Myself, I find it difficult to avoid such a mythologizing approach with Delany because from early on he's had a tendency to embed intratextual references in his work.

    Delany Week at Strange Horizons 2007

  • Rhetoric (1972) as an intratextual clash between mutually exclusive positions.

    Introduction 2005

  • In order to clearly delineate a sepperation between document text and intratextual editorialization, typesetters reduced the font of these sections to what might be for some, an uncomfortably small size.

    By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog 2009

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  • "Intratextualism" is my term for reading a given clause of the Constitution against the backdrop of other clauses in the document that use the same, or similar, words.

    -Akhil Reed Amar, An(other) on The Bill of Rights 87 Geo. L.J. 2347, 2354

    December 13, 2006