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textual harassment

noun

Etymology

Blend of textual + sexual harassment. The term textual harassment is from Mary Jacobus, 'Is There a Woman in This Text?' New Literary History 14 (Fall 1982): 117-41."

Definitions

  1. Sexual harassment in writing.

    • 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.

  2. Aggressive, distorting literary or textual criticism.

    • 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.

  3. Sexual harassment by means of explicit text messages.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA