http://eduspaces.net/antmcneill/weblog/243247.html
I tend to use 'text' in a loosely literary/cultural theory way to designate pretty much any sort of signifying practice: adverts, songs, newpaper articles, television programmes, txt msgs etc.
Whenever I use it, i'm reminded of my first reading of lit theory and the blurring of the opposition between the particularity of literary texts and the general textuality of the culture.
tures’’ and a culture’s more general ‘‘textuality,’’ of which literature
forms part
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