textual criticism

collocation in English

meaningsoftextualandcriticism

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textual
adjective
uk
/ˈteks.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈteks.tʃu.əl/
relating to written or ...
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criticism
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
the act of saying that something or someone ...
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(Definition oftextualandcriticismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftextual criticism

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This is certainly not a new idea - it has been fundamental to most theories oftextualcriticismfor generations.
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Nor did he try to employtextualcriticismto confront the difficulties he was facing.
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Mascuch attempts to occupy the difficult space between social history andtextualcriticism.
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It presents a balance of what we might call "pure" linguistics, anthropology,textualcriticismand exegesis, and the history of ideas.
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He might also have dealt profitably on a deeper level with artistic approaches to troubadour and trouvere song and the complex interaction between artistic reconstruction and musicological andtextualcriticism.
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Sweet was essentially a philologist, concerned with the understanding of texts (hermeneutics) andtextualcriticism.
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Sometimes he focuses on questions oftextualcriticismand variant readings, or the meaning of an obscure term; and sometimes, he is more concerned with medical matters.
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Musicologists, such as those cited in this paper, are embracing film music by peering into the creative processes and intentions of its composers, and profferingtextualcriticismof individual scores.
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If he has undertaken any detailedtextualcriticismof those amendments, he will know that they all have slightly different provenances.
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We are havingtextualcriticismupontextualcriticismin attempts to improve the whole situation.
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I really cannot be expected to indulge intextualcriticismof the circular in question.
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We use this amendment to raise a general issue, andtextualcriticismof the amendment seems to me to be irrelevant.
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My points oftextualcriticismare relatively minor.
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I am not talking about thetextualcriticism.
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I think that the use of atextualcriticismbased on a short extract from an interview is not a successful way of conducting questions and answers.
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Disciplines of textual scholarship include, among others,textualcriticism, stemmatology, paleography, genetic criticism (critique gntique), bibliography and history of the book.
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Linguistic criticism is not the same astextualcriticism, though it does fall under that discipline.
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Investigation of questions such as these are known as "highertextualcriticism".
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Their standpoints were characterized by merging of moralistic judgement intotextualcriticism.
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Intextualcriticism, eclecticism is the practice of examining a wide number of text witnesses and selecting the variant that seems best.
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