Meaning of antitextual | Babel Free

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Opposing a text or textual conventions.

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“Jane Harrison was perceived by angry classicists, those strict formalists of her day who worshiped the text, as antitextual. Her major works were written in the vivid, colloquial style of women's conversation, punctuated with jokes[…]”

“The advent of Zen to a large extent functions as an antistructural, antitextual movement[…]”

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