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153:, according to whom textualities are "ordered sets of texts of different status that are related to each other and come with pre-arranged modes of interpretation". A textuality consists of base-texts, "those that define a textual community and form a part of the necessary cultural competence of its members", result-texts, "bids that have just been accepted and entered circulation, as well as those that have done so some time ago but are still being considered recent arrivals by their recipients", mediated by an operational memory, "a shared (and internally contradictory) mental space of the cultural community and its various subgroups where texts are produced and processed", which contains different kinds of knowledge, standards and codes shared to different extent by the carriers of the culture. According to Raud, this model is complementary to a model of cultural practices, in which the production, distribution and transmission of meaning is regarded in the context of individual participation and activity, while a textuality is necessarily shared and perceived by its carriers to be an objective, albeit constructed, reality. 138:). Peter Barry's discussion of textuality notes that "its essence is the belief that things cannot be understood in isolation – they have to be seen in the context of the larger structures they are part of". To form an opinion, criticise, or completely interpret a text one would first have to read the complete literary work as a whole; this enables the reader to make supported judgements on the personality and individuality of the text. The text is always hiding something. Although the reading may define and the interpretation may decide, the text does not define or decide. The text rests as operationally and fundamentally indecidable. Roger Webster frequently uses metaphors of ‘weaving’, ‘tissue’, ‘texture’, ‘strands’, and ‘filiation’ when talking about the structure of texts. He also agrees that "instead, the text is a surface over which the reader can range in any number of ways that the text permits." 43: 142:
itself, etches itself in a texture or network of meaning, which is not limited to the text itself. Barry describes this as a "structuralist approach to literature, there is a constant movement away from the interpretation of the individual literary work and a parallel drive towards understanding the larger,
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Being textual includes innumerable elements and aspects. Each and every form of text and text in that form of literature embraces and consists of its own individual and personal characteristics; these may include its personality, the individuality of that personality, the popularity, and so on. The
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Textuality is not just about the written word; it also comprises the placement of the words and the reader’s interpretation. There is not a set formula to describe a text’s textuality; it is not a simple procedure. This summary is true even though the interpretation that a reader develops from that
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In short, textuality is an individual and uncertain skill that will always be read and interpreted in texts in different ways, by different people, and at different times. It is a literary tool that can never be defined like an exact science and that will always be influenced by the writer's life,
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Textuality is a practice. Through a text’s textuality, it makes itself mean, makes itself be, and makes itself come about in a particular way. Through its textuality, the text relinquishes its status as identity and affirms its condition as pure difference. In indifference, the text "dedefines"
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of the "work", which is always complete and deliberately authored. A text must necessarily be thought of as incomplete, indeed as missing something crucial that provides the mechanics of understanding. The text is always partially hidden; one word for the hidden part in literary theory is the
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leads to the interpretation of all eruptions of the nonphonetic within writing as transitory crises and accidents of passage, and it is right to consider this teleology to be a Western
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Barry says that "one of structuralism's characteristic views is the notion that language doesn’t just reflect or record the world: rather, it shapes it, so that
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textualities of the text define its characteristics. However, the characteristics are also closely associated with the structure of the text (
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comprises all of the attributes that distinguish the communicative content under analysis as an object of study. It is associated with
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An example of textuality in the electronic medium is the interactivity of a website, or visual of a specific television show.
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The concept of the text in structuralism requires a relatively simple relationship between language and writing.
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such as, their upbringing, education, culture, age, religion, gender, and multiple other persuading factors.
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text may decide the identity and the definitive meanings of that text. Textuality, as a
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function". For Derrida, this approach requires putting too much emphasis on speech:
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An example of textuality in the print medium is the physicality of a book.
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arose within structuralism as a replacement for the older idea in
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
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An example of textuality in the oral medium is the sound itself.
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Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture
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Textuality can be seen, heard, read, and interacted with.
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A different view of textuality has been put forward by
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Textual
Textuality (film)
confusing or unclear
clarify the article
the talk page
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literary theory
structuralism
post-structuralism
literary theory
Structuralism
abstract structures
Rein Raud
literary criticism
subtext
Jacques Derrida
Ferdinand de Saussure
post-structuralism
teleology
ethnocentrism
primitivism
preformalist
intuitionism
medium
oral
print
electronic
Text
Intertextuality
Hypertextuality

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