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- noun A kind of
writing laboratory wherestudents canexperiment with, and attempt toreproduce , the styles andtechniques being studied.
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text + shop, modelled on workshop but de-emphasizing the idea of work, inspired by Roland Barthes' essay From Work to Text. Coined by Gregory Ulmer; see Textshop for Psychoanalysis.
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