Like his operas, it avoids set pieces, letting the voices follow the contours of the text, shaped and guided by orchestral counterpoint spun from leitmotifs.
He argued that any reading of a historical text was shaped by the reader's experience in the present, and that rather than try to eliminate such influences, we ought to embrace them.
But he did not think, or he did not give attention to the idea, that literature is overdetermined, that a text is shaped by forces in the language and the culture that can multiply and ambiguate its meanings, and that can make it a party to the very conditions that its author is attempting to criticize or transcend.
Typically, Anderson has played down his contribution in interviews, claiming he did little more than transcribe Pynchon's dialogue – but the film has emerged as its own text, informed and shaped by two synchronous, similar voices.
Such descriptions of the cultural context help us understand and articulate the absent, imaginary addressee that this text both shapes and is shaped by.
It is patterned as a series of commentaries on a short autobiographical text that Kis called "Birth Certificate". This unusual structure adds to the interest and intrigue of the book, and is appropriate for treating so autobiographical a writer who believed that literary meaning is always deeply shaped by other texts.
By highlighting these allusions, Esterhazy shows how his text is derailed, distorted or even shaped by his own literary gourmandism.
Insofar as the texts may contain different strands of Pyrrhonian argument, exegesis is to some extent shaped by the philosophical interests we bring to the texts.
But it is framed and shaped by a series of spoken texts, mostly drawn from writings and speeches by Lincoln.
This class was shaped by conversations with Brandon Stewart, especially his class on Text as Data from Spring 2016.
The narrative structure of the Memory Tower is shaped by three core sets of encounters with texts and images projected onto the walls of the DiVE.
