 | Mihai Spariosu - 1984 - 336 pagina’s
...that marked the structuralist and poststructuralist tides. "Texts have ways of existing," Said writes, "that even in their most rarefied form are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place, and 39 society — in short, they are in the world, and hence are worldly." What might have seemed a truism... | |
 | Joseph P. Natoli - 1989 - 356 pagina’s
...alternative intentions whose advancement is a fundamental human and intellectual obligation" (30-31). Texts "are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place,...short, they are in the world, and hence worldly," Said says (35), but as texts they are not simply determined by that place. As texts, "they place themselves... | |
 | Bruce Henricksen, Thaïs E. Morgan - 1990 - 292 pagina’s
...circumstances, which are felt regardless of ... the critic's methods. . . . The point is that texts . . . are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place,...society — in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly."33 As described and practiced by the teachers in Reorientations, feminism, reader-response... | |
 | Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist - 1998 - 824 pagina’s
...writes in his essay, "have ways of existing, both theoretical and practical that even in their more rarefied form are always enmeshed in circumstance,...society — in short they are in the world, and hence are worldly." Texts are in the world in a material sense first of all; they are subjected to the same... | |
 | Kenneth Parker - 1999 - 308 pagina’s
...time from The World, the Text, and the Critic, that ‘texts have ways of existing that even in the most rarefied form are always enmeshed in circumstance,...short, they are in the world, and hence worldly'. 8 The validity of such a thesis needs to be tested not only against the texts of the time in which... | |
 | British Council - 1999 - 138 pagina’s
...because "texts have ways of existing that even in their most rarefied form [such as fictional narratives] are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place,...in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly" (Said, 1983 p35). In other words, the supposed location of Lilliput and Blefuscu either makes the two... | |
 | Kenneth Parker - 1999 - 304 pagina’s
...'texts have ways of existing that even in the most rarefied form are always enmeshed in cireumstance, time, place, and society - in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly'.8 The validity of such a thesis needs to he tested not only against the texts of the time... | |
 | Frank T. Boyle - 2000 - 262 pagina’s
...methods possess. The point is that the texts have ways of existing that even in their most raref1ed form are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place,...in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly. Whether a text is preserved or put aside for a period, whether it is on a library shelf or not, whether... | |
 | Kimberly Rae Connor - 2000 - 372 pagina’s
...The World, the Text, and the Critic, Said observes that "texts have ways of existing that even in the most rarefied form are always enmeshed in circumstance,...place, and society — in short, they are in the world, hence worldly" (35). His concept of borrowed or "traveling theory" therefore is an acknowledgment that... | |
 | Carl Good, John V. Waldron - 2009 - 236 pagina’s
..."worldliness" of texts: "The point is that texts have ways of existing that even in their most rarefied forms are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place,...in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly" (1983, 35). Said emphasizes this worldliness as a point of departure for the interpretation of textual... | |
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The point is that texts have ways of existing that even in their most rarefied form are always enmeshed in circumstance, time, place, and society — in short, they are in the world, and hence worldly. 
