Texts, Editors, and Readers
Title | Texts, Editors, and Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Richard John Tarrant |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521766575 |
A critical reassessment of the methods of Latin textual criticism and editing, in a form accessible to non-specialists.
Texts, Editors, and Readers
Title | Texts, Editors, and Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Tarrant |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131653880X |
This book re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and its prospects for the future in a digital environment. Each stage of the editorial process is examined, from gathering and evaluating manuscript evidence to constructing the text and critical apparatus, with particular attention given to areas of dispute, such as the role of conjecture. The importance of subjective factors at every point is highlighted. An Appendix offers practical guidance in reading a critical apparatus. The discussion is framed in a way that is accessible to non-specialists, with all Latin texts translated. The book will be useful both to classicists who are not textual critics and to non-classicists interested in issues of editing.
Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays
Title | Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Walter Gabler |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2018-02-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1783743662 |
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature and music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors. Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the concerns of the community of critics and scholars. Gabler responds innovatively to the issues involved and often endeavours to re-think their urgencies by bringing together the orthodox tenets of different schools of textual criticism. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of scholarly editing in the digital age. Written in Gabler’s fluent style, these rich and elegant compositions are essential reading for literary and textual critics, scholarly editors, readers of James Joyce, New Modernism specialists, and all those interested in textual scholarship and digital editing under the umbrella of Digital Humanities.
Dealing with Authorship
Title | Dealing with Authorship PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Burnautzki |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2018-10-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1527520730 |
Literature and film generate symbolic as well as economic capital. As such, aesthetic productions exist in various contexts following contrasting rules. Which role(s) do authors and filmmakers play in positioning themselves in this conflictive relation? Bringing together fourteen essays by scholars from Germany, the USA, the UK and France, this volume examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures, and thus arouses attention. It questions the autonomous nature of the artistic creation and highlights the parallels and differences between the more or less clear-cut national contexts, in order to elucidate the complexity of authorship from a multifaceted perspective, combining contributions from literary and cultural studies, as well as film, media, and communication studies. Dealing with Authorship, as a transversal venture, brings together reflections on leading critics, exploring works and postures of canonical and non-canonical authors and filmmakers. An uncommon and challenging picture of authorship is explored here, across national and international artistic fields that affect Africa, Europe and America. The volume raises the questions of cultural linkages between South and North, imbalances between the mainstream and the margins in an economic, literary or “racial” dimension, and, more broadly, the relation of power and agency between artists, editors, critics, publics, media and markets.
The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing
Title | The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Small |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521401463 |
This volume of essays addresses the practical implications of theoretical issues in a variety of texts from Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde.
A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts
Title | A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Loffman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 131718792X |
A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an unedited document, through to the established academic planning a team-enterprise, multi-volume re-editing of a canonical author. Explicitly, this Handbook does not aim to produce a linear treatise telling its readers how they 'should' edit. Instead, it provides them with a thematically ordered collection of insights drawn from the practical experiences of a symposium of editors. Many implicit areas of consensus on good practice in editing are recorded here, but there are also areas of legitimate disagreement to be charted. The Handbook draws together a diverse range of first person narratives detailing the approaches taken by different editors, with their accompanying rationales, and evaluations of the benefits and problems of their chosen methods. The collection's aim is to help readers to read modern editions more sensitively, and to make better-informed decisions in their own editorial projects.
The Editorial Gaze
Title | The Editorial Gaze PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Eggert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-04-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317777131 |
This collection of original essays brings international and multidisciplinary perspectives to the problem of how to understand and practice editorial mediation: How does editing alter what it seeks to represent? How does it condition the relationship between texts and readers? The different concerns shared by editors of a variety of genres, literary and otherwise, emerge here as constructive new approaches to the theory and practice of editing are explored. The essays make a concerted attempt to assess the implications of postmodern thought on one of the oldest and most fundamental cultural activities, editing The section on theory covers such important subjects as editorial responsibility, the death of the author, and the nature of the authorial voice. The practice section covers actual editing situations in various literary areas and in musicology, recorded music, and the preservation of oral literature. The multidisciplinary volume will find its readers among students of textual criticism, literature, music, and folklore as well as any readers of postmodern criticism.