undertext

When a team of four digital-imaging experts from around the country began submitting folios to different wavelengths of light—infrared and ultraviolet, among others—it quickly became clear that no single wavelength would adequately reveal the vestigial ink of the undertext.

Reading Beneath the Lines William Triplett 2011

The worst: Removing the paintings of saints, which lay atop the prayer book writing, which in turn lay atop the Archimedes undertext.

Reading Beneath the Lines William Triplett 2011

Metalanguage cedes to undertext, in new and unbidden circulations of the reading act.

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

As any reader senses, this musical undertext leads inexorably toward Maggie Tulliver's lethal infatuation with Stephen Guest's unctuous baritone voice, which plays, Aeolian-harp-like, upon the heroine's

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

Stewart demonstrates the legacy of Romantic sound play — the undertext of lyric writing in its phonemic activation — as an influence on Victorian poets and novelists.

Article Abstracts 2008

But why can't literature — again, not as a metalanguage but as an undertext — make it possible to voice that placeless source, and the virtualities of its constitutive otherness, precisely in such a way that each verbal incident comes to us shadowed by the present tinge of the contingent?

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

The undertext of this post and comments is that having 535 congressional boardpersons makes for a worse board than GM had before.

The Volokh Conspiracy » ”When GM Took Federal Dollars, They Lost Some of Their Autonomy” 2009

There, the heroines 'energy, so refreshing, though irritating, in comparison to the proper characters, as well as that strong undertext of social critique prevalent throughout the

'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

Prominence given to such stories has an undertext: that racism is something out of the past, that only a few loose-end individuals remain to be "brought to justice," and we can all celebrate the end of a stone-cold era.

Dawg's Blawg 2005

Prominence given to such stories has an undertext: that racism is something out of the past, that only a few loose-end individuals remain to be "brought to justice," and we can all celebrate the end of a stone-cold era.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005