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- | *[[Roland Barthes]] | + | *[[Roland Barthes]]'s ''[[From Work to Text]]''. |
*[[Intertextuality]] | *[[Intertextuality]] | ||
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A text is a written passage consisting of multiple characters, symbols or sentences; a book, tome or other set of writings. In language, text is something that contains words to express something, regarded as an object of critical analysis.
Specific literary theories are distinguished not only by their methods and conclusions, but even by how they define "text." For many, "texts" means "literary (i.e. 'high' art) texts" (see literature). But different principles and methods of literary theory have been applied to non-fiction, pop fiction, film, historical documents, law, advertising, etc. In fact, some theories (e.g. structuralism) treat cultural events like fashion, football, riots, etc. as "texts."
In literary theory a text is the object being studied, whether it be a novel, a poem, a film, an advertisement, or anything else with a linguistic component. The broad use of the term derives from the rise of semiotics in the 1960s and was solidified by the later cultural studies of the 1980s, which brought a corresponding broadening of what it was one could talk about when talking about literature; see also discourse.
Text may refer to
In books:
In unit of study:
- hermeneutics
- philology
- Semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems
- cultural studies, the unit of discourse
In writing:
- a piece of writing
- Textual criticism
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