antitextual

adj

antitextual

adj

Etymology From anti- + textual.

1

Opposing a text or textual conventions.

  • Jane Harrison was perceived by angry classicists, those strict formalists of her day who worshiped the text, as antitextual. Her major works were written in the vivid, colloquial style of women's conversation, punctuated with jokes[…]1988, Shari Benstock, The private self, page 140:
  • The advent of Zen to a large extent functions as an antistructural, antitextual movement[…]1994, Steven Heine, Dōgen and the Kōan tradition, page 177:

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