Meaning of textual harassment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sexual harassment in writing.
   uncountable
2. Aggressive, distorting literary or textual criticism.
   uncountable
3. Sexual harassment by means of explicit text messages.
   uncountable

Examples

“She places the textual harassment experienced by all women writers at her own disposal as evidence of her grace, and hence her authority.”

“Moneypenny reminding Bond of his responsibilities and limitations curtails the textual harassment of the character.”

“Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures, […].”

“The process is one of systematic misconstruction, a kind of textual harassment.”

“So the deconstructionist practises what has been called textual harassment or oppositional reading, reading with the aim of unmasking internal contradictions or inconsistencies in the text.”

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