ENGL2605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Old English Latin Alphabet, Time Translation Symmetry, Books Of Samuel
9 Oct 2018
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Lecture 15 texts in time: the exeter manuscript; the seafarer, old english alphabet - uses the insular alphabet. Shakespeare as an example of a master of self-paraphrasing. Macbeth and the scene of the red hand (" the multidininuous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. " A history of transformation, substitution, supplementation and translation. Jerome mgann: " literary works do not know themselves, and cannot be known, apart from their specific material modes of existence/resistance. : however: mcgann holds too much importance on the individual instances of works. When you look at one particular instance of a text, you are actually looking at all the many instances of that text which have coincidentally brought to perceive this particular instance of the text. The practical limitation of reproduction not only includes the inevitability of citational drift. (jacques derrida, 1972): can"t be limited, because of the possibility for prosopopoeia and rebetokening.
