The Idea of Text in Buddhism: Introduction

مجلة الآداب, 2018

The notion of the text has undergone a complex, plentiful and sometimes perplexed changes in the 20 th century due to the unprecedented diversity and complexity of reading literature, which raises issues about subjectivity, gender, nationality, ideology, institutions and historical periods. It was Ronald Barthes, in his controversial article "From Work to Text", who opened the gate for new perspectives and understandings of the text. The present paper sums up the definitions and redefinitions of the notion of the 'text' in the modern literary theory.

2006

Reading texts is less valued today than it once was. This is noticeable in various ways. Colleagues, especially from the other side of the Atlantic, tell that detailed philological work is next to useless for furthering their careers. It is perhaps assumed that everyone with a knowledge of the language concerned can read a text, and that the interesting work only begins at that point. 1 "Some questions posed by a recent epistemological approach to Indian thought," ZDMG 155(1),

Interchange, 1993

In attempting to explain the relationship between reader and text, theorists have alternated focus upon either the reader or the text, to clarify and validate perspectives on epistemological problems of hermeneutics—or interpretation—as the logical culmination of the reading act. Beyond facilitating comprehension, the essence of teaching reading in language education is the determination of cross-cultural aspects of communication and language competence wherein the heart of hermeneutics lies. Therefore, this paper surveys a diverse field of cross-discipinary research incorporating both philosophical and empirical methodology in literary theory, semiotics, reading theory, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and linguistics, in order to more clearly define an approach to investigation of hermeneutics in relation to the reading act and literature (or written text).

2010

Preface Introduction Part I. General Metaphysics: 1. The heron in the water: textuality and the shapes of discourse 2. The bounds of the text 3. Adam's dream, Babel's curse 4. The handkerchief and the cat 5. The writer's hand, or the world, the text and the author 6. The trajectories of texts Part II. Special Territories: 7. Orality: yesterday, today and tomorrow 8. Shakespeare and the book of the play 9. Translation and displacement: the life and works of Pierre Menard 10. Writing pictures, drawing words: the manuscript doodles of Rabindranath Tagore.

2020

Marketing Identity: Digital Mirrors - part II., 2018

The main aim of the study is to define the diversity of theoretical methodological principles for analysis and consequent interpretation of the text, with emphasis on those approaches whose complexity allows us to cross the field of literary science as well as to enter other disciplines such as media studies. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to define the concept of text, to indicate the appropriate terminology and to justify our consideration of the text as an artifact with a certain verbal value (in our study we focus specifically on literary and media text). Emphasis is placed on current literary-methodological approaches to text analysis. We suppose that the selected methods of analysis and subsequent interpretation of literary texts have been useful in studying media texts as well (e.g. audiovisual images). We try to confirm/possibly refuse the assumption in the final part of the study, in which we summarize the data obtained and then compare the results.

2006

It is not surprising that all forms of human reflective enterprise, such as science, philosophy, literature, music and the fine arts, will display some convergence somewhere in the total reflective spectrum. However, there is a lingering intuition that there is more to the convergence of literature and philosophy than what is captured in the general idea. How do we conceptualise this special bond? Since both literature and philosophy are ancient, complex and richly varied forms of human thought with indefinite contours often tinged with conflicting cultural expectations, it is unlikely that some ‘essentialist’ answer to the question raised above could be non-trivially reached. So I will refrain from either defining “literature” and “philosophy” or attempt to locate their respective areas of operation via necessarily biased selection of texts. Instead, assuming large areas of convergence, I will ask: is there a penchant for some goal which is not directly open to other forms of refle...

Dorji Wangchuk, “A Rationale for Buddhist Textual Scholarship.” In Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation, edited by Dorji Wangchuk. Indian and Tibetan Studies 5. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2016, pp. 335–352.