Textual Form (1 Viewer)

[MilkDrinker]

Hi guys,
What exactly is textual form? If a question such as the 2010 HSC question
"To what extent has textual form shaped your understanding of history and memory?"
asked for textual form, does it only ask for techniques and structure?
Thanks

 

[albertcamus]

Textual form means the medium of your text i.e film, Shakespearean drama, poetry, biographical memoir.

Let's say with Julius Caesar - how does the dramatic nature of the play form, the tragic play notion of the play form, props on stage, language devices specific to the form like soliloquies - how do these inform your understanding of the text, conflicting perspectives and the nature of representation - you just change that for whatever text you're doing for history and memory - what aspects of your text are specific? Is it a piece of poetry? Poetry tends to be subjective and offers an insight into the composer's perspective more so than many other forms and has many other language devices exclusive to it like a certain poetic structure, rhyming schemes, caesuras - how do these give you a greater understanding of history and memory?

 

[MilkDrinker]

Thanks for that clarification.
So for Mark Baker's Fiftieth Gate, would it be alright to mention just any technique that is related to that genre or form of that memoir?
e.g. -structure
-multiple perspectives
etc.
Thanks again

 

[albertcamus]

Thanks for that clarification.
So for Mark Baker's Fiftieth Gate, would it be alright to mention just any technique that is related to that genre or form of that memoir?
e.g. -structure
-multiple perspectives
etc.
Thanks again

Pretty much any technique , I'm not too familiar with 50th Gate so can't help you there but you seem to be on the right track since those are techniques that'd be exclusive to a memoir.

Although if this is some special type of memoir then techniques specific to that always help even more.

 

[MilkDrinker]

Cool!
Thanks again, you have been very helpful!