Textual Intervention
Nov. 29th, 2006 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethOnce again I have acquired more books instead of actually doing things.
... yeah, I know.
But.
This one is interesting.
Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies, Rob Pope.
it reckons it has "interactive strategies for exploring texts through re-writing and analysis"
It was written down as being useful for the current assignment, the group one with the making up drama. But it looked interesting so I bought it.
... The fact I still have money as well as an ever increasing library continually surprises me.
The fact that my new shelves were full technically before I finished putting them up surprises me not at all.
ANYways
I've flicked through it at random and it seems to be a book of ways to write fanfic and reasons it is a valid way to make comments on texts (and get marks in assignments).
*very big grin*
... Yeah, random sample leaves much room for disappointment, but it sounds like fun so far.
"De-Centering and Re-Centering a Literary Classic"
section has definitions of three kinds of intervention:
textual: intervention from 'within' the text - reconstructing around other textually available centres.
contextual: intervention from 'outside' the text - bringing the text into contact and collision with other centres of interest in the contemporary context.
cross-textual: supervention of the text - shifting the centre of attention to another text (and perhaps author and discourse) entirely - albeit ones that are still obliquely related.
... which my brain translates to 'canon characters, OCs, and Xovers'
My only complaint about the book so far is it was advertised as 'like new - bought for course not taken' and yet it falls open at particular places, has curled up corners, and generally looks very much like a book carted around in a bag a lot.
But I figure the price matches the actual condition well enough, compared to the fuss of refunds or something. I'll just knock a star off the feedback.
... yeah, I know.
But.
This one is interesting.
Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies, Rob Pope.
it reckons it has "interactive strategies for exploring texts through re-writing and analysis"
It was written down as being useful for the current assignment, the group one with the making up drama. But it looked interesting so I bought it.
... The fact I still have money as well as an ever increasing library continually surprises me.
The fact that my new shelves were full technically before I finished putting them up surprises me not at all.
ANYways
I've flicked through it at random and it seems to be a book of ways to write fanfic and reasons it is a valid way to make comments on texts (and get marks in assignments).
*very big grin*
... Yeah, random sample leaves much room for disappointment, but it sounds like fun so far.
"De-Centering and Re-Centering a Literary Classic"
section has definitions of three kinds of intervention:
textual: intervention from 'within' the text - reconstructing around other textually available centres.
contextual: intervention from 'outside' the text - bringing the text into contact and collision with other centres of interest in the contemporary context.
cross-textual: supervention of the text - shifting the centre of attention to another text (and perhaps author and discourse) entirely - albeit ones that are still obliquely related.
... which my brain translates to 'canon characters, OCs, and Xovers'
My only complaint about the book so far is it was advertised as 'like new - bought for course not taken' and yet it falls open at particular places, has curled up corners, and generally looks very much like a book carted around in a bag a lot.
But I figure the price matches the actual condition well enough, compared to the fuss of refunds or something. I'll just knock a star off the feedback.