View Single Post
Old 02-09-2014, 06:48 PM   #28
Dr. Drib
Grand Sorcerer
Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Dr. Drib ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Dr. Drib's Avatar
 
Posts: 45,458
Karma: 59592133
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Peru
Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour
I'd like to bring up another issue:

Equally important are division breaks within a text signifying time breaks, cognitive dissonance, and/or narratival distortions when studying physical space within a text, components that help one to study the language of story and storyteller. Think of the cuts in a film and how they can best be used to draw and/or link a narrative within a structured time sequence. Dissertations have been written on this subject, an area that I find rich in study (back when I was working on Kenneth Burke and rhetorical theory, an area that then led toward the study of narration and the language of fiction).

I don't have my text here in front of me of The Crystal Cave, but I was trying to remember if a narrative break occurred in Part I (near the end of Chapter 1):

This is what happened that night. I saw it, and it is a true tale.


and then there is a break, and then the narrative proceeds to Chapter 2.

If there was a break in the narrative at that point, then the text assembled by this publisher in question is not true to Stewart's own text. (Again, I cannot confirm this, since my text is currently in the U.S.)

Anyway, this is merely another example - along with the other ones already mentioned, that asks a number of questions that we (in my opinion) have yet to receive a definitive answer about.

Of course, copyright concern is the most important aspect, but these other issues (even if there is not a copyright issue), does bring into question the reliability of the text.

Last edited by Dr. Drib; 02-09-2014 at 06:56 PM.
Dr. Drib is offline   Reply With Quote