what is textual intengrity???

[Mandalie]

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just in response to those people who were saying its about how true to the original interpretations are.... that can work with Hamlet etc.
But im doing Gwen Harwoods poetry and that just doesnt work with it.
Textual integrity is like... how the integrated themes (which you understnad through others' interpretations) help a text withstand the pass of time with their enduring relevance.
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[JimBrennan]

Originally Posted by mickii_

Textual integrity is a really broad term but, put very simply it's a measure of how well the text is written and how well it speaks to and is received by its audience, both during its time and today i.e. withstanding the test of time etc...

exactly right

[danal353]

i posted this in another thread about textual integrity but here it is anyway...

we had a huge confusion thing at school about textual integrity and after a lot of discussion by the teachers, they explained it to the whole grade

textual integrity is a word coined by the board of studies. it is used in a way that describes the text as a whole, the entirety of it, how all the elements add up to make a text good.

A composer cannot "use textual integrity", or "establish textual integrity". Rather it is what the responder draws from a text after critically examining it.

So a speech, like any text, will have textual integrity, if all the elements add up to an integrated, substantial whole... look at the words - textual integrity - how well the elements of the text (techniques, ideas etc.) are integrated and the quality of those elements and the integration

i hope that made sense...

also, we were told to avoid using the term unless it was specifically asked for in the question

[Matty H]

haha, well im no english whizz trust me, but my extraordinarily weak understanding is basically:

if the common themes can be related and understood by many readers throughout time, a text has textual integrity.
Like for hamlet, the themes of revenge, roles of women, deceit and filial obligation while evident at the time the play was written, can also be applied and understood in the modern age.

i dunno how right that is...but it works for me.
In the meantime, i think i will stick to things like physics!!!

[27GV]

Originally Posted by danal353

i posted this in another thread about textual integrity but here it is anyway...

we had a huge confusion thing at school about textual integrity and after a lot of discussion by the teachers, they explained it to the whole grade

textual integrity is a word coined by the board of studies. it is used in a way that describes the text as a whole, the entirety of it, how all the elements add up to make a text good.

A composer cannot "use textual integrity", or "establish textual integrity". Rather it is what the responder draws from a text after critically examining it.

So a speech, like any text, will have textual integrity, if all the elements add up to an integrated, substantial whole... look at the words - textual integrity - how well the elements of the text (techniques, ideas etc.) are integrated and the quality of those elements and the integration

i hope that made sense...

also, we were told to avoid using the term unless it was specifically asked for in the question

You are about right. "Textual integrity" is that cohesion of both thematic elements and techniques (characterisation, allusion, language ect.) that grants the text significant/resonant qualities.

Therefore, in an essay you are likely to be asked a question concerning specific themes or techniques, thus you are to write an essay that expresses how these aforementioned themes are integrated with others to grant the text significance in your view.

[Mitch.hope99]

Originally Posted by Nicola1616

textual integrity which to my mind is a bitch of a concept. It's one of those things that has definitions everywhere but its very hard to work out its practical application.

I thought this was exactly what i thought of textual integrity!!