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diachronic

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di·a·chron·ic (d-krnk)
adj.
Of or concerned with phenomena as they change through time.


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A kind of false confidence which would deny the possibility of what Norman Cantor labeled Diachronic Philology in his Chapter "The Oxford Fantasists" in his 1991 Inventing The Middle Ages in describing Tolkien's lifetime project.
And yet, coersubmission and terror converge so symmetrically in the synchronic and diachronic time of her narration that as Hemings tells her story, not only does her anguish recede, but her interpellation is literally punctuated by the transposition of her master's desires and power as somehow her own.
His is a diachronic, historical-critical reading, with ample evidence of the commentator's philological skills.
 
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