#textual criticism

• Literary analysis — A critical, systematic, and detailed examination of a literary work aimed at deciphering its formal structure, major themes, motifs, stylistic devices, and profound messages. This type of investigation involves decomposing the text into its constituent elements (characters, narrative perspective, setting, time, figures of speech) to understand how they interact and contribute to the author's overall artistic vision.
• Pre-titling — The act of pre-entitling and its result; the process of naming, titling, or assigning a preliminary or provisional title to a text, chapter, or literary work before final editing or official publication. It represents a specific stage in textual criticism and desktop publishing, whereby temporary thematic benchmarks are established.
• Antigraph — A manuscript, original text, or archetypal copy that serves as the direct source model for producing a new handwritten copy (apograph); the source document utilized by medieval scribes in scriptoriums.
• Anti-memoirs — An autobiographical work or avant-garde memorialistic trend that rejects traditional chronological structure, idealized retrospective character, and strict factual fidelity in favor of a subjective, fragmented, or essayistic reconstitution of the past; a literary concept historically launched by André Malraux. In a structural sense, the text deconstructs the myth of a coherent self and explores the plays of affective memory.
• Anthologize — To subject a text or a work to the process of selection and structural grouping within an anthology; to choose representative fragments or complete writings of some authors in order to gather them in a collection with a well-defined aesthetic or critical profile. This approach implies rigorously evaluating the intrinsic value of the works to guarantee them a benchmark place within a collective volume.