Her book is not a seamless narrative of the rise and flourishing of the Roman empire, but a subtle and engaging interrogation of the complex and contradictory textual and material traces of the Roman world.
He's spent years verifying details, like the locations of houses as recorded in the diary, and tracing textual evidence that would indicate the era in which it was originally written.
In this sense then, textual persona can be traced as both an effect of the organisation of an overall argument or the use of persuasive strategies in general (in particular, the co-positioning of writers and addressees) - as well as an effect of the implied associations carried by the phenomena which are attitudinally evaluated (i.e. targets of attitude) – perhaps across multiple texts.
From the preceding discussion it is apparent that there is only one universally valid principle of textual criticism, the formulation of which can be traced back at least as far as the 18th-century German historian A.L. von Schlözer: that each case is special.
Thus in theory the genealogical, or stemmatic, method allows the critic to eliminate from consideration all variants that cannot be traced back to the archetype or earliest inferable textual state.
Textual characterization results show that the ordered mesoporous structure of carbon silica composite with trace SiO2 is well preserved.
We also employ the Trace Ratio Criterion Patch Alignment Embedding (TR-PAE) to obtain lower dimensional representation in a textual space.
Then there are the self-styled "guerilla preservationists", deep into heritage theory, and genuinely committed to creating a coherent photographic and textual record of buildings that would otherwise crumble unnoticed until a developer arrived to raze all trace of them.
Down on his hands and knees — or armed, at least, with that astonishing instrument for close textual analysis that is the DVD player — Lethem combs the carpet for stray bread crumbs and cat hairs, finding traces of both high art and low, trash television and political philosophy, personal expression and unfiltered cliché.
