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Frozen Sandhi, Flowing Sound: Permanent Euphonic Ligatures and the Idea of Text in Classical Pali Grammars
Pali classical grammars reflect a specific idea of what Pali Buddhist texts are. According to this traditional idea, texts are mainly conceived as...
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The authority of the text in Svetlana Aleksievich’s Secondhand Time
Amongst the most treated questions in Western research on the works of Svetlana Aleksievich is the question of the genre of Aleksievich’s prose...
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Perceiving the Text
Reading a text involves the perception of letters on a screen or a page, or some other perceptive pathway. But it does not usually consist of...
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The Text as Temporally Dispersed
Understanding a text means allowing oneself to become affected by the meaningfulness of what one perceives, when receiving the text’s sensible...
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The Temporal Plot of Understanding the Text
When readers reflect on their sense of a narrative text, they can usually distinguish a time, relative to other times, of when they learned of...
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The Mutuality of Text Meanings Through Synthesis
Earlier chapters have argued that readers understand a text through the largely passive synthesis of a plurality of discrete acts by which they have...
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The Text World: Dense and One
Passive synthesis encompasses not only adjacent passages, but also distant locations in the same text. Readers can discover in prompted reflection...
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Reading What is Not There: Ethnomethodological Analysis of the Membership Category, Action, and Reason in Novels and Short Stories
This paper investigates how the reader of prose fiction fills in the blanks regarding a fictional character’s membership category, action, and reason...
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Structure and Authorship of the KusumÀ·jali
This paper suggests that the classic of Indian theology, the Nyāya-kusumâñjali is in fact two texts: an earlier treatise in 65 ślokas, and Udayana’s...
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Zhuangzi’s “Three Words”: Text and Authority
The “Three Words” (sanyan 三言) passage of the Zhuangzi has always had particular authority for traditional and modern exegetes. Not only does it seem...
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Correcting the Text of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha
Attempts have been made to correct the text of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha on the basis of the texts that its author used—and sometimes refers to by...
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Music as a subject of discussion in A.F. Losev’s philosophical prose
This article focuses on Alexei Losev’s literary texts that embrace his mythology of music: “I was 19 years old,” “A meteor,” “ A woman - thinker ,” “The...
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Instructions and constructions in set theory proofs
Traditional models of mathematical proof describe proofs as sequences of assertion where each assertion is a claim about mathematical objects....
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Sounding the Word
Chapter 3, ‘Sounding the Word’, addresses the verbal arts, both oral and written. What are the sources of the power and precision of words? How is a...
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Hegel on Poetry, Prose and the Origin of the Arts
Hegel claims that poetry, not prose, is the most original form of writing. This chapter examines why Hegel’s account of the history of the arts puts...
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The Synthesis of Sequence
In last chapter’s protocol of meaning experiences, I was concerned with a sequence of text units which I took to hang together by thematic...
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Ban Zhao of China 班昭 45–116 CE
Ban Zhao’s life and achievements are set here in an historical context and her philosophy in a context of Chinese philosophy. To understand her...
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Satire in Renaissance Literature
Satire, in both prose and verse, was a relevant form of expression in the Renaissance. The development of Renaissance satire was influenced by the...
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The Aesthetics of Literary Genres
Lyric, Epic, and Drama have perennially been acknowledged to be the fundamental genres of literature, but their defining identity and status has been...
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Suspect Paper: Money in Romanticism
This chapter explores the diverse accounts of money in European Romanticism. While there was broad consensus among the philosophers and poets of the...