Textual Integrity - King Lear (1 Viewer)

[amyg238]

Could someone please explain the concept of "textual integrity" with reference to King Lear?

Thanks in advance

 

[danish222]

Good question. I understand that textual integrity is to do with how everything in the text works together to form an idea. To show textual integrity in reference to King Lear you must carry an idea through the play- analyse at least 2 scenes and choose a motif/theme/thread of imagery that runs through the play and point that out.

Hope that makes sense and can help you

 

[Gimlian]

Like madness and insanity as a theme?

 

[mzduxx2006]

Could someone please explain the concept of "textual integrity" with reference to King Lear?

Thanks in advance

textual integrity relates to a texts ability to fulfill the assumptions, ideologies and systematic belief systems of the audience to which the text is aimed at.

FOR EXAMPLE.

an elizabethan audience would assume that lears abdication would result in chaos and anarchy. therefore they would also assume that lear would suffer considerably and be punished for his wrong doings. such an assumption is fullfilled through the storm scene when lear descends into madness and is redemed through acknowleding his foolishness in regards to cordelia. ultimately his death fulfills an elizabethan audiences expectations as his abdication and divestiture of england was quite significant. therefore the play has a large amount of textual integrity as it fulfills the audiences expectations from the lens that is applied to it. if we apply a nihilistic lens to king lear, the text would lack textual integrity as nihilism believes that "no good comes from self knowledge" which is tru as lear dies however he has learnt a lesson, therefore the text refutes a nihilistic paradigm. therefore from a nihilistic reading the text would lack textual integrity, however from an elizabethan reading the text would have an abundance of textual integrity as it fulfills the audiences expectations.

make sensE? if not just personally msg me and ill send u my msn email then ill explain further.

 

[Chinmoku03]

Textual integrity is the ability for a text's fundamental core to remain consistent and yet the text itself can have many interpretations. At least, that's how I learnt it.

So the interpretation bit is easy; It's just different KL versions, eg KL with Paul Scofield as Lear. You have to come to your own definition of what the core of KL the play is tho. This'll prolly come from your interpretation of KL

 

[fatemjay]

quoted by the board as
"the unity of a text; its coherent use of form and language to produce an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value"

textual integrity is the basis of all that you have been learning in module B - how the language, structure, characterisation etc affect the meaning of the text, as well as how the themes are represented

 

[danish222]

Like madness and insanity as a theme?

Yes that is certainly a theme in the play.

 

[amyg238]

Oh man, thanks for all the help.
I think I get it now, finally.