Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of language as it is used in written texts.
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- noun literature, linguistics The
attributes that distinguish atext as an object of study.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This experience of immersive textuality is the truly radical face of MOOspace as a scholarly or pedagogical use of new media because it collapses the traditional criticism's posture of maintaining an objective distance from the experience of characters within the text.
'If the acts have been perform'd let the Bard himself witness': William Blake's Milton and MOO space 2005
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"textuality," broadly conceived; a disintegration of hierarchies of all kinds; and an abandonment of the concept of truth in favor of rhetoric, argumentation and narrative as guarantors for meaning and legitimacy.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"textuality," broadly conceived; a disintegration of hierarchies of all kinds; and an abandonment of the concept of truth in favor of rhetoric, argumentation and narrative as guarantors for meaning and legitimacy.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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And last but not least: When expressing your textuality, play it safe and use protection!
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Sam Choi and Jack Lynch, who had advanced programming skills and a like fascination with the potentiality of electronic textuality.
Introduction 2010
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I had so much fun writing a review of Who Fears Death because it is, among other things, very much a book about textuality and storytelling -- about how the stories we tell, the words we use, the structures and vantage points we select, affect our perception of the world.
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Agamben would seem, so we'll find, to have given over his emphasis on voice, whose role — and with it, for us, that of subvocally engaged textuality — seems no longer directly engaged by a philosophy of the potential.
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Mystery religions are not particulaly rich in textuality.
Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection James F. McGrath 2010
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And last but not least: When expressing your textuality, play it safe and use protection!
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I had so much fun writing a review of Who Fears Death because it is, among other things, very much a book about textuality and storytelling -- about how the stories we tell, the words we use, the structures and vantage points we select, affect our perception of the world.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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