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n. (context literature linguistics English) The attributes that distinguish a text as an object of study.
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In linguistics and literary theory, textuality comprises all of the attributes that distinguish the communicative content under analysis as an object of study. It is associated with structuralism and post-structuralism.
Usage examples of "textuality".
A way of describing this would be to say that deconstructive reading uncovers the unconscious rather than the conscious dimension of the text, all the things which its overt textuality glosses over or fails to recognise.
All this demonstrates what is meant in practice by insisting upon the historicity of the text and the textuality of history.
In all three of these a complex Derridean-Foucauldian notion of textuality and fields of discourse is immediately apparent.
History cannot be divorced from textuality, and all texts can be compelled to confront the crisis of undecidability revealed in the literary text.