Textual Architecture Research Articles

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher: Thoughts on an Architecture of Terror

The present study is part of a research field that lies at the intersection of architecture and narratology. It is our, the authors’, shared belief that spatial metaphor in the textual realm plays a significant role in the construction of meaning. In certain literary works, the spatial background of the story is designed with great care, functioning as a dynamic matrix that organizes the plot, adding to or emphasizing the meaning of the narrative. This practice, which we refer to as textual architecture, could be extremely valuable to architects because it offers up a treasure-trove of design methods able to generate meaning through space. The present study offers a way of understanding such spatiality in the context of architectural epistemology. It does so by contemplating the literature in which textual space is delineated. The outcome of this process is an original method of mapping textual architecture based on what we describe as spatial figures. We chose to apply this method to highlight an interesting narrative strategy within the literary genre of horror. We believe that certain writers have used space not to create an atmosphere of terror but to generate terror itself. The products of such endeavours form part of a genealogy that sees textual architecture as a means of generating a feeling of terror. We term this genealogy the architecture of terror. The present study also aims to highlight what we regard as a seminal point in the development of the above-mentioned strategy - the publication in 1839 of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher. We examine the spatial figures of this work and their semantic function.

The Textual Architecture of Empire in Two Early Qing Anthologies

Abstract During the first half century of the Qing dynasty, Manchu emperors commissioned massive publication projects on the Chinese classics. In early Qing interpretations of classics on the family, negotiations between Manchu and Han family and gender norms furthered the empire-building project. This article compares the spatial form of the Yuding Nei ze yanyi 御定内則衍義 (1656), an expansion of the “Inner Standards” chapter of the Classic of Rites commissioned by the Shunzhi emperor, to that of the Yuding Xiao jing yanyi 御定孝經衍義 (1682), an expansion of the Classic of Filial Piety commissioned by the Kangxi emperor. These works are textual spaces where the cultural and political negotiations of the early Qing empire play out; they use spatial strategies of juxtaposition and hierarchy to balance different messages for different constituencies, creating textual models of empire.

O discurso teórico em artigos científicos: uma abordagem à luz do ISD

The present work analyzes a corpus of 10 scientific articles published in conference proceedings in the area of ​​Pedagogy, based on categories present in the theoretical-methodological framework of Sociodiscursive Interactionism, ISD: (BRONCKART, 1999, 2006, 2008; CRISTOVÃO, 2008; PINTO, 2007; COUTINHO, 2007; PEREIRA, 2009, 2012, 2014). The area of ​​Pedagogy invites us to think about how aspects such as thematic content, mobilization of theoretical discourse and how the production context influences the organization of discursive worlds are constructed. By way of conclusion, we can say that the discursive treatment in the context of textual production in the area of ​​pedagogy encompasses elements ranging from the types of discourses to other forms of planning and general plan of the genre, which, according to Bronckart (2014) corresponds to the layer depth of the textual architecture supported by the locution attitudes manifested in the interface between the world of person and the coordinates of the social worlds, sequential and linear structuring of the text and the organization of the thematic content.

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap

A systematic mapping study on text analysis techniques in software architecture

ContextInformation from artifacts in each phase of the software development life cycle can potentially be mined to enhance architectural knowledge. Many text analysis techniques have been proposed for mining such artifacts. However, there is no comprehensive understanding of what artifacts these text analysis techniques analyze, what information they are able to extract or how they enhance architecting activities. ObjectiveThis systematic mapping study aims to study text analysis techniques for mining architecture-related artifacts and how these techniques have been used, and to identify the benefits and limitations of these techniques and tools with respect to enhancing architecting activities. MethodWe conducted a systematic mapping study and defined five research questions. We analyzed the results using descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis methods. ResultsFifty-five studies were finally selected with the following results: (1) Current text analysis research emphasizes on architectural understanding and recovery. (2) A spectrum of text analysis techniques have been used in textual architecture information analysis. (3) Five categories of benefits and three categories of limitations were identified. ConclusionsThis study shows a steady interest in textual architecture information analysis. The results give clues for future research directions on improving architecture practice through using these text analysis techniques.

Por uma historiografia literária sentimental: formação e modernidade em Antonio Candido

Este artigo pretende realizar uma análise da historiografia literária de Antonio Candido, expressa em Formação da literatura brasileira (1959). Compreender a arquitetura textual de Candido como uma narrativa de passagem, na qual são selecionados os momentos decisivos da literatura brasileira, indica uma permanente tensão entre tradição e modernidade e o caráter incompleto de nossa formação literária. Assim, de maneira a abarcar a relação entre tradição e modernidade, fundadora de uma literatura nacional, propomos uma chave de leitura schilleriana. Desse modo, talvez seja possível, a partir da passagem de uma literatura de traço ingênuo para uma de caráter sentimental, identificar o sentido da teoria da formação da literatura brasileira expressa por Candido

Textual Architecture of a Selected Hard News in English: A Discourse Analysis Approach

This study deals with the analysis of a selected hard news through the adaptation of an eclectic model of analysis by the use of Van Dijk (1988), Bell (1991) and Halliday (1976) models of discourse analysis. Writing news stories is a problematic process because it is not a process of merely putting words together to form a text or report, but it involves the choice of the words and markers that conditioned by the purpose, place, and the readers. The study aims at proposing a theoretical framework for the macro- level analysis of news discourse. It covers the macro level analysis of the chosen hard news. The data of the study is an English news story taken from Washington Times newspaper published on 20th of August 2016. The results of the study display that English hard news stories show certain complexity in their structure. The writer of this hard news story aims at not only conveying information but arising the voice of protest against the government and the court of justice. Such analysis reaches to a conclusion, which emphasizes the idea that the field of discourse can be used for better understanding of the media.

Textual Architecture of a Selected Hard News in English: A Discourse Analysis Approach

This study deals with the analysis of a selected hard news through the adaptation of an eclectic model of analysis by the use of Van Dijk (1988), Bell (1991) and Halliday (1976) models of discourse analysis. Writing news stories is a problematic process because it is not a process of merely putting words together to form a text or report, but it involves the choice of the words and markers that conditioned by the purpose, place, and the readers. The study aims at proposing a theoretical framework for the macro- level analysis of news discourse. It covers the macro level analysis of the chosen hard news. The data of the study is an English news story taken from Washington Times newspaper published on 20th of August 2016. The results of the study display that English hard news stories show certain complexity in their structure. The writer of this hard news story aims at not only conveying information but arising the voice of protest against the government and the court of justice. Such analysis reaches to a conclusion, which emphasizes the idea that the field of discourse can be used for better understanding of the media.

Schneider, Edgar W. Postcolonial English. Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. ix+367

The volume provides a well-documented detailed account of the development of what we broadly refer to as Postcolonial English, in its multiple manifestations, in particular in its evolutionary dimensions including the ongoing processes. The structure of the book comprises seven chapters – apart from a list of maps, figures and tables, the series Editor’s Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgements, a list of abbreviations (preceding the main body of the book) and relevant lists of notes (pp. 318–310), references (pp. 331–359) and the index of authors (pp. 360–362) complemented with the subject index (pp. 363–367), all of which testify to the massive credit acknowledged to other researchers in the field, the field that relies grossly on utmost attention to detail. The book as a whole is an elegant expression of Schneider’s exceptional capacity to combine restless effort with a clear vision inherent in the theoretical commitment, which runs throughout the entire book, and a capacity to design the textual architecture in which the reader would not miss the forest for the trees, where the reader is provided with proper tools to see the shafts of light illuminating the textual construction, in spite of the fact that the very ‘light’ is compounded of so many minute and diverse elementary particles.

FIRE AT NIGHT: A VERSION OF HERAKLEITOS

1 R F I R E A T N I G H T : A V E R S I O N O F H E R A K L E I T O S H . L . H I X Philosophers call it a category mistake when something is treated as if it belonged in a category to which in fact it does not belong. And philosophers consistently make two category mistakes with regard to the influential ancient Greek public intellectual Herakleitos : that he wrote fragments and that he was a pre-Socratic philosopher. First Mistake: Herakleitos Wrote Fragments It is true that nothing of Herakleitos’s work has come down to us in continuous or complete form. We might have only a small handful of Sophocles’ apparently numerous plays, but what plays we do have are complete; what dialogues we have of Plato might be (ironically) copies of copies, but they are complete. Of Herakleitos , though, we have only short citations embedded in various works by later authors. Earlier translations, without exception, preserve (and even emphasize) that fragmentation: of course it would be irresponsible to present what has arrived to us as if it had arrived whole. No self-respecting translator would downplay the 2 H I X Y incompleteness and discontinuity of what we have from Herakleitos . Yet one of the short passages that has reached us warns, ‘‘Let us not thoughtlessly consent to common sense in momentous matters .’’ In this matter at least, the warning is apt: the common sense of things in regard to Herakleitos’s work is mistaken and ought not to be consented to. That the work has reached us in fragments does not mean that Herakleitos wrote fragments. Of the passages we have from Herakleitos, to take their current fragmentation as definitive of their character is to mistake an e√ect of transmission history for a revelation of authorial intention or a disclosure of original textual architecture. G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven in their anthology The Presocratic Philosophers fall into this trap, perfectly exemplifying consent to common sense. ‘‘The surviving fragments,’’ they suggest, ‘‘have very much the appearance of oral pronouncements put into a concise and striking, and therefore easily memorable, form; they do not resemble extracts from a continuous written work.’’ Kirk and Raven admit that the one longish passage that appears to have been the opening of Herakleitos ’s treatise on nature (‘‘Logos is ever . . .’’) is ‘‘a structurally complicated sentence’’ that is continuous enough to stand as a counterexample to their view, but they wave it away by speculating that ‘‘possibly when Heraclitus achieved fame as a sage a collection of his most famous utterances was made, for which a special prologue was composed.’’ With a vicious circularity, Kirk and Raven take this speculation as both supportive of and supported by the view – part of the common sense – that ‘‘the fragments we possess’’ (as if the ‘‘Logos is ever . . .’’ passage were not one of them) are ‘‘obviously framed as oral apothegms rather than as parts of a discursive treatise’’ (emphasis mine). Parity of reasoning would sanction a view that the Roman Colosseum, because it is now in ruins, must have been originally designed and built as a ruin, must in its nature be a ruin, and that the large intact portion, so unlike the rest, was a later addition. Even translators alert to the dubiousness of taking current fragmentation as a fulfillment of original form still replicate that gesture. Charles H. Kahn, for example, in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus, wisely disputes Hermann Diels’s curious decision to F I R E A T N I G H T 3 R list the surviving passages ‘‘in alphabetical order according to the name of the author citing them,’’ and replaces Diels’s alphabetical ordering with a thematic ordering on the premise that ‘‘Heraclitus ’ discourse as a whole was as carefully and artistically composed as are the preserved parts, and that the formal ordering of the whole was as much an element in its total meaning as in the case of any lyric poem from the same period.’’ Yet that imputation of wholeness notwithstanding, Kahn’s book bears...

Gedruckte Gebrauchsgegenstände mit lexikographischen Formeigenschaften

Abstract As an introduction the typological position of printed utility tools with formal properties of a lexicographic nature (hereafter abbreviated as GlexFE) is determined within a typology of utility tools. This follows an extensional and intensional definition of GlexFE. Using examples a number of concepts are then informally introduced and it is shown that why and when the action-theoretically based theory of dictionary use can also be employed for a theory-based description of the use of GlexFE. The central part of this paper gives a detailed and critical examination of a regional telephone directory with special reference to its text compound constituents, its arrangement structures, its cross-reference culture, its telephone directory functions and its textual architecture. It is shown that the theory of dictionary structures allows detailed examinations and that it is so robust that it functions well and renders informative results without changing its basic concepts when expanding its application domain to include GlexFE. The analysis clearly shows that the compilation of a good telephone directory also needs lexicographic-theoretical knowledge.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Para um modelo didático do conto policial

In order to contribute for the training of teachers on the issue of teaching textual genres, this article focuses on the conception of a didactic model of the genre detective short stories adapted to the process of learning the Portuguese language in Brazil and in Portugal. The proposal is based both on the theoretical reflection on this genre, in the fields of Textual Linguistics and Literature, and on the linguistic analysis of the text that it adopts (“The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). The analysis focuses on the most relevant aspects that characterize the textual genre, according to its social functioning, which include the interaction, among thematic, organizational and enunciative aspects.The deriving didactic model of genre based on the above referred aspects (henceforward referred to as MD) will neither neglect the identification of what can be taught in higher education (3rd and 4th Ciclos, in the case of Brazil, and 2nd and 3rd Ciclos, in the case of Portugal) nor the question of the progression in learning. We will emphasise the theoretical and methodological framework of Sociodiscursive Interactionism (henceforth referred to as ISD), in particular the textual architecture model proposed by Bronckart (1999) and the MD, developed by the groups GRAFE and ALTER (with special reference to Dolz and Schneuwly 1996, 1997, 1999; Schneuwly et al. , 2004; De Pietro et al. , 1996; Machado and Cristovao, 2006; Machado, 2009). Key words: detective short story, Didactic Model of Genre (MD), Sociodiscursive Interactionism (ISD).

FRANCOIST POLITICS OF FEMALE IDENTITY: THE CURIOUS CASE OF LIDA VERONA

FRANCOIST POLITICS OF FEMALE IDENTITY: THE CURIOUS CASE OF LIDA VERONA

GÊNEROS DE TEXTOS, TIPOS DE DISCURSO E SEQUÊNCIAS. POR UMA RENOVAÇÃO DO ENSINO DA PRODUÇÃO ESCRITA

Este artigo é uma versão da conferência, proferida por Jean-Paul Bronckart na PUC-SP, tendo por objetivo discutir a questão do ensino da produção escrita, mostrando vários projetos de renovação propostos principalmente nos países de língua francesa, mas que influenciaram o ensino da língua e da produção escrita também em outros países. Bronckart explicita a posição do interacionismo sociodiscursivo em relação a esse tema, apresentando seu modelo da arquitetura textual e apontando pistas para a didática da produção escrita.

To Risk Immanence/To Read Schizo-Analytically: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Kleistian War-Machine

To Risk Immanence/To Read Schizo-AnalyticallyDeleuze, Guattari, and the Kleistian War-Machine Adrian Switzer What a wide array of narrative arcs are inscribed in Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas: the story is a Baroque, textual architecture overlaid with the tight coils of a horse’s braided mane; the cuneiform lettering of illuminated scripture; the swath of destruction Kohlhaas cuts across the German countryside; finally, the last arc inscribed in the story is the broad parabolic sweep of the executioner’s axe: “Kohlhaas aber [. . .] wandte sich zu dem Schafott, wo sein Haupt unter dem Beil des Scharfrichters fiel. Hier endigt die Geschichte vom Kohlhaas” (Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas 103) [Kohlhaas, however . . . turned to the scaffold where his head fell under the axe of the executioner. Here ends the story of Kohlhaas]. Yet, as attested in the language with which Kleist reports Kohlhaas’s execution, each narrative arc is figured in distinctly textual terms; again, the swing of the executioner’s axe “endigt die Geschichte vom Kohlhaas” [ends the story of Kohlhaas]. As Clayton Koelb points out the story is overall coherent despite its turn from an initial realism, centering on the provincial horse-dealer who suffers injustice at the hands of the Prussian government, to the fantastic character of its conclusion where an old gypsy woman’s prophecy is deciphered to reveal the end of a royal line. The horses whose abuse seems to trigger Kohlhaas’s vengeful wrath, “come into play mainly as stand-ins (that is, as collateral) for a missing document.” It is not the horses per se that are at issue; rather, Koelb rightly argues, it is “Kohlhaas’s lack of a ‘permit [Paßschein]’ that starts all the trouble” (Koelb 1099). Consider in this regard the following exchange between Kohlhaas and an officer at the border between Brandenburg and Saxony: Der Burgvogt, indem er sich noch eine Weste über seinen weitläufigen Leib zuknüpfte, kam, und fragte, schief gegen die Witterung gestellt, nach dem Paßschein. -Kohlhaas fragte: der Paßschein? Er sagte, ein wenig betreten, daß er, soviel er wisse, keinen habe; daß man ihm aber nur beschreiben möchte, was dies für ein Ding des Herrn sei: so werde er vielleicht zufälligerweise damit versehen sein. (Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas 10) (The warden, still fastening a waistcoat across his capacious body, came up and, bracing himself against the wind and rain, demanded the horse-dealer’s permit. [End Page 153] “My permit?” asked Kohlhaas and added, a little disconcerted, that so far as he knew he did not possess one, but that if the warden would kindly explain what on earth such a thing was he just might possibly have one with him.) To Kohlhaas’s dismissive comments concerning his documentation—if only he knew what it was, perhaps he would have it after all—the Junker Wenzel von Tronka replies that without a state permit a dealer bringing horses could not be allowed across the border. All of Kohlhaas’s subsequent travels—across the border into the Electorate of Saxony, and his return to the Brandenburg Mark—are figured in this missing permit: “In Dresden [. . .] begab er sich, gleich nach seiner Ankunft, auf die Geheimschreiberei, wo er von den Räten, deren er einige kannte, erfuhr, was ihm allerdings sein erster Glaube schon gesagt hatte, daß die Geschichte von dem Paßschein ein Märchen sei” [In Dresden . . . [Kohlhaas] went immediately upon arrival to the Chancellery, where from the officials—some of whom he knew—he learned what he all along had been inclined to believe, that the story about the pass was a fiction]. Despite the misgivings of the officials, Kohlhaas acquires from them a written certificate attesting to the lie of the Junker’s story. No pass is, indeed, required to cross the border to traffic in horse-trade (13). Kohlhaas later files official papers against the Junker in the court at Dresden (21). The court of Saxony, however, returns no official decision on Kohlhaas’s “statement.” Then, in reply to “a private letter” written to his advocate, Kohlhaas learns that the case has been dismissed: the Junker von Tronka has high-placed relatives in the Elector’s...

Thevet Revisits Guanabara

Thevet Revisits Guanabara

ARCHITECTURAL (S)CRYPTS: IN SEARCH OF A MINOR ARCHITECTURE

This paper examines two theories of textual architecture that have arisen from the work of Derrida: the first devebped by Peter Eisenman, the second by Jennifer Bloomer. Both claim that their constructs are “critical”, but it is arguable that they are critical of the architectural orthodoxy, not the broader socio-political issues that motivated Derrida. The “search” in this paper is for a contemporary socio-political polemic for architecture. One possibility, which this paper supports, is a “minor architecture”; a model of practice theorised in passing by Bloomer. The paper concludes by proposing that the architectural installations of Tadashi Kawamata are a minor architecture which challenge all architectures collusions with power.