Displaying words in narrative configurations, reimagining print narrative: William H. Gass, Mark Z. Danielewski, Vanessa Place by Brigitte Félix

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From Text, to Myth, to Meme: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation by Alison Lee, Frederick D. King

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Listening to the wind in the trees: meaning, interpretation and literary theory by H. du Plooy

“… In this article the literary theories which dominated textual studies during the twentieth century are discussed briefly, indicating the philosophical roots of these theories. …”
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The Triptych of Dorian Gray (1890–91): Reading Wilde’s Novel as Three Print Objects by Brett Beasley

“…In this paper I investigate these three texts—the typescript, the magazine version, and the first edition—using both the methods of textual studies and the methods of social and literary history, showing that the various texts of The Picture of Dorian Gray actually embody different arguments about the status of material objects themselves. …”
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A Digital Archaeology of Early Hispanic Film Culture: Film Magazines and the Male Fan Reader by Anna Torres-Cacoullos, Elizaveta Senatorova

“…We advocate for the affordances of a mixed macro-micro approach that combines distant reading with traditional textual studies of close reading. By adopting such a hybrid framework, digital methods provide new opportunities towards reconstructing profiles of magazine readerships and to unearth evidence of male movie fans in Spain.…”
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South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…It first describes and discusses their front-page reports as they captured the tragic 9/11 event, before it reflects on their editorials –columns providing one with insights into the respective editors’ understanding of this event and their perceptions of Muslims nationally and globally. Being a purely textual study, it conceptualizes Islamophobia as the essay’s conceptual frame. …”
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