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With the 'textualization of everything', research methods are applied to the study of various artifacts, events, and media, whilst non-textual methods are used for the 'reading' of texts. With the rise of cross-disciplinary projects, for example, it is common for one trained as a philologist to focus on doodles in marginalia. Literary theorists are 'reading' TikTok videos, and musicologists consider notation as visual communication. Methods of reading or anti-reading are intriguing and yet the potential for interdisciplinary theoretical reflections and critiques of the 'reading' metaphor is far from exhausted. The novelty of 'reading' everything involves a 'slippage between literariness and metaphor' that should be examined. There are hermeneutical gains of crossing between text and non-text as well as potential pitfalls and hermeneutical losses. The collection aims to establish a theoretical framework for expanding the scope of 'text' and the meaning of 'reading' by showcasing diverse and original individual projects from a broad range of disciplines in the humanities.  

Banner image taken by LiaC, 'Edifício São Vito' (2006), licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons.

Editors: Netta Schramm (Guest Editor), Roni Chai Cohen (Guest Editor), Yaakov Kroizer (Guest Editor)


Beyond Text: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Textuality

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