The Erotic Life of Manuscripts

The Erotic Life of Manuscripts
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9780190279806
ISBN-13 : 019027980X
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Book Synopsis The Erotic Life of Manuscripts by : Yii-Jan Lin

Download or read book The Erotic Life of Manuscripts written by Yii-Jan Lin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Testament textual critics who used language to group texts into families and genealogies were not pioneering new approaches, but rather borrowing the metaphors and methods of natural scientists. Texts began to be classified into "families, tribes, and nations," and later were racialized as "African" or "Asian," with distinguishable "textual physiognomies" and "textual complexions." These genealogies would later be traced to show the inheritance of "corruptions" and "contamination" through generations, an understanding of textual diversity reflective of eighteenth- and ninteenth-century European anxieties over racial corruption and degeneration. While these biological metaphors have been powerful tools for textual critics, they also produce problematic understandings of textual "purity" and agency, with the use of scientific discourse artificially separating the work of textual criticism from literary interpretation.


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