One of the most important aspects of analyzing literary texts is the consideration of the reflection of the author's thoughts, wishes, griefs and regrets as defense mechanisms. In reviewing the reflection of an author's unconscious in his or her work, psychoanalytic or psychological criticism is often used, in which the critic tries to reveal the influence of the author's mental constraints on ...

Philology, the 'love of the word', is an academic discipline that threatens to turn the texts collected in critical editions into intellectual playgrounds. For the important task that consists in trying to arrive at as coherent an understanding of a text as possible by considering everything its author has written always trails a certain danger in its wake: it can all too easily become an acade...

Reading groups can be spaces of resistance, both from the competitive performances of some classroom seminars and from the calculative fields of neoliberalizing departments and universities. As graduate students, we offer this intervention as a consideration of the bodily politics of academic reproductions. In discussing the embodiment of textual practices in seminar and in reading groups, we p...

This is a contribution primarily to the ongoing discussion of textual collation in COST Action A32 ("Open Scholarly Communities on the Web"). It discusses requirements for instruments of electronic collation both for purposes of textual criticism and for critically interpretative work with literary, philosophical, historical etc. texts, and teaching. The existing tools it refers to are the coll...

This paper describes a textual aligner named MEDITE whose specificity is the detection of moves. It was developed to solve a problem from textual genetic criticism, a humanities discipline that compares different versions of authors’ texts in order to highlight invariants and differences between them. Our aligner handles this task and it is general enough to handle others. The algorithm, based ...

Abstract Commencing from a critical reading of two recent publications on the Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa and Devīmāhātmya , this article argues that, contrary to what is maintained by author books under review, ailing Purāṇic studies not reliance traditional modes textual criticism, but misunderstanding about its utility for accessing dynamic history text corpora.

The article deals with the study of translingual practices in works by Udmurt poet B.V. Anfinogenov. interest to questions transcultural literature is due importance research cultural diversity multilingual regions Russia. methodological basis linguistic analysis a literary text, synthesis-generalization achievements modern criticism, structural poetic etc. collection texts B. Anfinogenov “Dz’i...

In this article the authors of an original publication on so-called Porus medallions Alexander Great published a few years ago in Journal Numismatic Association Australia respond to some criticism addressed at their study by F. Holt issue 15 journal (pp. 13–20). The authors’ rebuttal is based mathematical principles and textual analysis.