scholarly journals The Dawn of Maria Genta: Metrics, Textual Criticism and Interpretation in Roi Paez de Ribela B 1439 / V 1049

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Rip Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Criticism And Interpretation ◽  
Critical Text

This article offers a new critical text of a cantiga d’escarnho by Roi Paez de Ribela along with an analysis of problems presented by the metrics, syntax, rhetoric and action of the poem.

Chiastic Structure of the Vessantara J?taka: Textual Criticism and Interpretation Through Inverted Parallelism

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Shi Huifeng
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Criticism And Interpretation ◽  
Tentative Hypothesis ◽  
Textual Approach

The Vessantara J?taka is not only the most popular of all the Buddhist J?taka tales, but is important in the tradition as a whole, generally considered by the Therav?din tradition to display the epitome of the Bodhisatta’s perfection of giving (d?nap?ram?). While most studies have focused on philological approaches, numerous questions as to the text’s structure and how to interpret individual parts within that structure have remained unresolved (§1. The received tradition of the Vessantara J?taka). My study shall employ the theory of ‘chiasmus’ (inverted parallelism) to shed new light on both the key message of the story and also the sub-themes within it (§2. Chiastic structures as textual approach). In terms of textual criticism, I shall first elucidate the chiastic structure of the text and discuss how this structure can provide insights on text-critical readings (§3. Textual criticism: Chiastic units and structure). In terms of interpretation, I shall then see how the structure clearly demarcates the text’s scope through its prologue and conclusion with surrounding framework, its paired parallel sub-themes, and its central climax point, all in the light of its chiastic structure (§4. Interpretation: A chiastic reading). Finally, considering broader implications, on comparison with other recently discovered Buddhist textual chiasmi I shall present a tentative hypothesis as to the origins of such structures in the ‘bodhisatt(v)a’ literary genre (§5. Conclusions: Critical and interpretive implications).

scholarly journals Interactive Tools and Tasks for the Hebrew Bible : From Language Learning to Textual Criticism

2017 ◽  
Vol Special Issue on... (Towards a Digital Ecosystem:...) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Winther-Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Text Categorization ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Criticism And Interpretation ◽  
Interactive Tools ◽  
Ancient Texts

This contribution to a special issue on “Computer-aided processing of intertextuality” in ancient texts will illustrate how using digital tools to interact with the Hebrew Bible offers new promising perspectives for visualizing the texts and for performing tasks in education and research. This contribution explores how the corpus of the Hebrew Bible created and maintained by the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer can support new methods for modern knowledge workers within the field of digital humanities and theology be applied to ancient texts, and how this can be envisioned as a new field of digital intertextuality. The article first describes how the corpus was used to develop the Bible Online Learner as a persuasive technology to enhance language learning with, in, and around a database that acts as the engine driving interactive tasks for learners. Intertextuality in this case is a matter of active exploration and ongoing practice. Furthermore, interactive corpus-technology has an important bearing on the task of textual criticism as a specialized area of research that depends increasingly on the availability of digital resources. Commercial solutions developed by software companies like Logos and Accordance offer a market-based intertextuality defined by the production of advanced digital resources for scholars and students as useful alternatives to often inaccessible and expensive printed versions. It is reasonable to expect that in the future interactive corpus technology will allow scholars to do innovative academic tasks in textual criticism and interpretation. We have already seen the emergence of promising tools for text categorization, analysis of translation shifts, and interpretation. Broadly speaking, interactive tools and tasks within the three areas of language learning, textual criticism, and Biblical studies illustrate a new kind of intertextuality emerging within digital humanities.

scholarly journals Chronotope of literary-critical judgement (based on books of I.I. Vinogradov)

2020 ◽  
pp. 162-176
Author(s):  
E.M. Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
Internal Connection ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Critical Text ◽  
Formal Level ◽  
Motivational Structure ◽  
The Subject

The phenomenon of the undefined status of literary criticism leads to a lack of clarity in its terminological apparatus. In particular, there is no unity on the issue of what to consider as the plot of a literary-critical utterance, as well as how to determine its motivational structure, or to identify a set of semantic fields. The subject of this research is the literary category of the chronotope, which is used to analyze the poetics of a critical text. This study was carried out on the basis of the collections of I.I. Vinogradov (1930-2015) “Like bread and water. Art in Our Life” (1963), “Art. True. Realism” (1975), “On a living track. Spiritual Searches of Russian Classics” (1987) with the involvement of textual criticism, biographical data and evidence of the historical context. Despite the artificiality of dividing the chronotope as dominant uniting texts, each of its parts is consistently characterized in order to accomplish the most complete presentation. Space, not in physical, but in textual terms, is understood as a set of factors that bind articles together at a formal level (genre format, heading complexes, typography design). The author's image is viewed as multifunctional: it builds an internal connection and a storyline. The functions of the chronological aspect are also shown: responsibility for the historical, cultural and biographical contexts, dating, meaningful transformation of articles. The conclusion deals with the possibility of using a complex view of the totality of chronotopic characteristics of judgment and the methodological preferences of the critic as a whole.

On Some Passages of Oviod's Tristia

1914 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
S. G. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Edition ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Criticism And Interpretation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Lecture

Since the publication of my critical edition in 1889 the Tristia of Ovid has received some attention. A paper in Hermathena, vol. vii. (1890) by Professor R. Ellis contains several conjectural emendations, and in a public lecture on The Second Book of Ovid's ‘Tristia’ (Clarendon Press, 1913), this veteran scholar analysed the intricate contents of Book II. Two learned pamphlets by Dr. R. Ehwald, Ad historiam carminum Ouidianorum recensionemque symbolae (I. Gotha, 1889 ; II. Gotha, 1892) deal with the history of the text, and the textual criticism and interpretation generally. Dr. Paul Vogel's Kritische und exegetische Bemerkungen zu Ovid ‘Tristien’ (Festschrift, Schneeberg [Sachsen] 1891) is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the text and its interpretation.

Problems of textual criticism and interpretation in Lucan's De Bello Civili

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 26-51
Author(s):  
Lennart Håkanson
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Criticism And Interpretation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Modern Sense ◽  
Selection Of

As is well known, the first edition of Lucan's De bello civili that offered a critical apparatus in the modern sense of the word was Carl Hosius' edition, first published in 1892, then revised and reprinted twice, the last time in 1913. It is the editions of Hosius and Bourgery-Ponchont that give us the fullest information about MSS readings. The most important edition of Lucan in this century, that published by Housman in 1926, contains, on the other hand, only a selection of readings taken over from Hosius. In his preface as well as in his apparatus Housman is eager on any occasion to demonstrate the unreliability of the codex Montepessulanus, M, the favourite of his predecessor Hosius, and a scholar who has recently re-examined an essential part of the tradition of Lucan says about him: ‘The slighting of M and the MSS in general was Housman's peculiar contribution to the study of the transmission of Lucan's text. Rather than attempt to understand the nature of the evidence, he preferred to ignore it. It would be relevant to ask an editor with such an attitude why he bothers to provide an apparatus criticus.’ These hard words come from Harold C. Gotoff, who in 1971 published the monograph The transmission of the text of Lucan in the ninth century. Gotoff's book will certainly give valuable help to a future editor of Lucan as far as the composition of the critical apparatus is concerned, but not at all, I think, to the same degree when it comes to the constitution of the text. This may perhaps sound somewhat peculiar, but I will try to make clear what I mean.

A Discussion of Phaedo 69 a 6–c 2

1944 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
J. V. Luce
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Criticism And Interpretation ◽  
Coherent Picture

This long and complicated sentence has not been correctly translated nor clearly explained by any of the editors of the Phaedo that I have been able to consult. Bekker, Stallbaum, Wohlrab, Geddes, Wagner, Archer-Hind, Williamson, Burnet, in their notes on the passage say much that is true, but all seem to fall into certain errors. None of them has given an accurate and coherent picture of the passage as a whole. In attempting to supply such a picture I have pointed out what I believe to be the mistakes of these editors, and on certain points of grammar, textual criticism, and interpretation I have some new suggestions to offer. So much emphasis on one sentence is not misplaced, for this is an important sentence, the culminating point of the first section of the dialogue, and containing in brief the essence of the ethics which Plato expounds through the mouth of Socrates. It is the peroration of Socrates' Apologia pro Vita sua, introduced by the impressive words: ⋯ μακ⋯ριε ειμμ^iota;α, a form of address often used by Socrates in passages of ‘pith and moment’.

A Note on the Publication History of John Polidori's The Vampyre

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-343
Author(s):  
Fabio Camilletti
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Publication History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

It is generally assumed that The Vampyre was published against John Polidori's will. This article brings evidence to support that he played, in fact, an active role in the publication of his tale, perhaps as a response to Frankenstein. In particular, by making use of the tools of textual criticism, it demonstrates how the ‘Extract of a Letter from Geneva’ accompanying The Vampyre in The New Monthly Magazine and in volume editions could not be written without having access to Polidori's Diary. Furthermore, it hypothesizes that the composition of The Vampyre, traditionally located in Geneva in the course of summer 1816, can be postdated to 1818, opening up new possibilities for reading the tale in the context of the relationship between Polidori, Byron, and the Shelleys.

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