The Tag Glossary: T

This tag withinWRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES encloses a statement not about a writer’s technique generally but about specific tools, as listed in available attribute values. Applies to the structural components and devices of language used to create literary effects. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements. One optional attribute, TECHNIQUETYPE, has values versification, non-standardenglish, DICTION, auraleffects, and imagery. For a fuller discussion of these values, see TECHNIQUETYPE.

Located within BIOGRAPHY > EDUCATION, this tag records texts significant in educational development, early reading matter which exerted a formative influence, rather than even major influences on her writing, if encountered in maturity. Encloses generally just a title or author name, but can enclose a phrase, e.g. "Greek myth and legend," or "German fairy tales."

This has one optional attribute, REG which allows for the standardization of the name of the author or title of the book (either of which might be tagged as TEXT) when not done in the prose. Used for expanding or fully identifying either Name or Title: <TEXT REG="Eliot, George”>Eliot</TEXT>, <TEXT REG="The Mill on the Floss">Maggie Tulliver</TEXT>

Found in WRITING, this is one of three big-bucket tags with PRODUCTION and RECEPTION. Most of the same comments apply as on those tags, though TEXTUALFEATURES almost never includes CHRONSTRUCTs. This element addresses content and features of critical interest in texts and provides space for textual analysis/close readings as perceived by project members. No text is allowed directly within the TEXTUALFEATURES element; another element must be opened first. The optional elements most at home in TEXTUALFEATURES include: TCHARACTERIZATION, TCHARACTERTYPEROLE, TCHARACTERNAME, TGENRE, TGENREISSUE, TINTERTEXTUALITY, TMOTIF, TPLOT, TSETTINGDATE, TSETTINGPLACE, TTECHNIQUES, TTHEMETOPIC, TTONESTYLE, and TVOICENARRATION.

Belonging in WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES, THEMETOPIC is a very flexible tag. It has no controlled vocabulary associated with it, but can contain any information. It may enclose much more than a single word; it may record central themes, side issues in a text, or objects of observation or discussion. Place tags, for instance, often appear within TTHEMETOPIC tags in accounts of travel literature, and NAME tags within accounts of biography and criticism. (Accounts of place as it operates in fiction use a SETTINGPLACE tag.) This element applies to both theme and topic. Theme is the central idea in a text stated either directly or indirectly; topic applies to interesting subjects appearing in a work that might not aspire to the status of a "theme". The tag is useful in describing examples of genres such as educational or non-fictional texts. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

Title is a core tag, available throughout the textbase. It encloses the title of a literary and other work of art: convention is that an exhibition or novel, etc, takes MONOGRAPHIC attribute, whereas a single painting or poem, etc, takes ANALYTIC. The TITLE element encloses the title of a work, whether article, book, journal (newspaper, magazine), series, or unpublished. Attributes are REG (to record standard form as given in bibliographic entity collection; also in case of misspelling in source), REND (which can over-ride the style sheet and display a title without italic or quotes), and TITLETYPE, which indicates whether the work is an article, book, journal, series, or unpublished material.

This element is found in BIOGRAPHY > CULTURALFORMATION. It is sometimes within CLASSISSUE. Unlike CLASSISSUE, which contains detailed discussion of her class position, CLASS is meant to capture an identifying word or phrase. From this element users can generate lists of women writers who were working-class, aristocratic, etc. It has optional attributes: SELFDEFINED and SOCIALRANK. The latter offers a range of values, allowing you to express class in a standard way.

This subtag is located in BIOGRAPHY > PERSONNAME. It captures titles of nobility, sometimes more than one held successively, by a woman in right of her husband or less commonly of herself. It has attributes for REG (used for variant spelling) and WROTEORPUBLISHEDAS (Yes or blank). Ranks are duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess, Lady, and Dame. 

This element can be found in WRITING > TTEXTUALFEATURES. It contains a phrase or full sentence or more. It applies to the characteristic manner of expression; how a particular writer says things; the reflection of a writer's attitude, manner, mood, and moral outlook and the means of expressing that manner or mood. This tag encloses a statement of a far more undirected and general character than the contents of the TTECHNIQUES tag. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

If locationtion of element attribute is expressed, tagg it as An element used in writing and encoding Orlando’s early stages but never implemented. It was to enclose topics from a pre-determined list of major historical topics including some of the scope and complexity of witchcraft or the second world war. For each of these the briefest possible account (a single paragraph) would be written, outlining key facts and dates. A links screen would point users towards this central description, as well as to all the uses of the tag elsewhere. It would be a major task to implement this tag, which has fallen out of use, though the results could be interesting and valuable.

This element belongs to WRITING > PRODUCTION. It encloses a word or brief statement, records certain specifics about the kind of printing operation involved. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes. Often used in conjunction with PMODEOFPUBLICATION, it is mostly used for small, unusual, or experimental publishing ventures.