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Textual Distortion

Textual Distortion

Treharne, Elaine
Walker, Greg
Kelly, Aaron

Hardcover

Series: Essays and Studies, Book 70

Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1843844796
ISBN13: 9781843844792
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Nov 17 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The notion of what it means to distort a text is here explored through a rich variety of individual case studies.

Distortion is nearly always understood as negative. It can be defined as perversion, impairment, caricature, corruption, misrepresentation, or deviation. Unlike its close neighbour, disruption, it remains resolutely associatedwith the undesirable, the lost, or the deceptive. Yet it is also part of a larger knowledge system, filling the gap between the authentic event and its experience; it has its own ethics and practice, and it is necessarily incorporated in all meaningful communication. Need it always be a negative phenomenon? How does distortion affect producers, transmitters and receivers of texts? Are we always obliged to acknowledge distortion? What effect does a distortive process have on the intentionality, materiality and functionality, not to say the cultural, intellectual and market value, of all textual objects?

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