Textuality, Culture and Scripture

Download or read book Textuality, Culture and Scripture written by Wesley A. Kort and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Textuality, Culture, and Scripture", a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, describes the prominent role of texts and textuality in Western modernity and the exchange of textual for material understandings of culture that becomes apparent in the middle of the twentieth century. Taking its starting point in the turn or return in cultural studies to textuality, the argument addresses the necessary role of texts and textuality in cultural, group, and personal identities. Central to the argument is the thesis that “scripture,” rather than an occasional or optional textual category, should be seen as playing a necessary role in an adequate textual theory.