urtext

Noun

A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.

Japanese Meaning

芸術ジャンルの原始的・根源的あるいは模範的な例 / 特定のイデオロギー運動の基盤となる基本的な例

What is this buttons?

Many critics consider the novel to be the urtext of modern dystopian fiction, influencing countless later works.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

多くの批評家はその小説を現代ディストピア小説の原型となる作品とみなし、その後の数多くの作品に影響を与えた。

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Sense（1）

A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.

Nearly coinciding with the publication of Thomas’s work was what, in many ways, stands as the ur-text of Turkish denialist “scholarship”: Esat Uras’s Tarihte Ermeniler ve Ermeni Meselesi. Uras, born Ahmed Essad, was an important figure in the CUP administration and was heavily involved in the planning and execution of the Armenian Genocide as a high official in the “directorate for public security.”

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