writtenness

Even places that sustained polities for centuries without a written constitution have begun to succumb to the lure of writtenness.

Archive 2008-02-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

The writtenness of the text is from one point of view risky as a strategy of communication: it risks the appearance of passivity, and the re-readability of the text risks the appearance of indeterminacy.

'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture 2007

The writtenness of the text is like the sheer factuality of the historical past as the vehicle of revelation: it is something irreversibly done, but for that very reason continuously inviting or demanding.

'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture 2007

Steve Calabresi has an excellent essay on the importance of the writtenness of the Constitution here, and Prof.

First day. Ann Althouse 2007

The fact remains, however, that Britain seems largely to have an unwritten constitution, suggesting strongly that writtenness is not a defining feature of constitutionalism.

Constitutionalism Waluchow, Wil 2007

You know, for that matter, I really think that most liberals have simply never stopped to ponder the immense significance of the mere writtenness of our Constitution.

Finally, an answer to the single most important question about this blog! Ann Althouse 2006

They do not dismiss affect, but they also are very careful not to let ideals of intensity or depth seduce them into postures that lose sight of the irreducible writtenness, literal or figurative, of all our affective identifications.

Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

But I stand firm in my liking of that paper’s well-writtenness as well as the elegance of the problem-solving insight involved in the flavor framework.

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