What is a text?

► Textuality is a construal; it does not inhere in 'texts' but is assigned to them. ► The textual construal is characteristically self-oblivious. ► Canonical works are the material basis of textuality. ► Hermeneutics apprehends the verbal as text, history apprehends it as document. ► The construction of a canon can be seen as an instance of 'knowledge in transit'.