[PDF] Textual Scholarship And The Material Book eBook

Author : Wim Van Mierlo
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9042028173

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In the last decades, the emphasis in textual scholarship has moved onto creation, production, process, collaboration; onto the material manifestations of a work; onto multiple rather than single versions; onto reception and book history. Textual scholarship now includes not only textual editing, but any form of scholarship that looks at the materiality of text, of writing, of reading, and of the book. The essays in this collection explore many questions, about methodology and theory, arising from this widening scope of textual scholarship. The range of texts discussed, from Sanskrit epic via Medieval Latin commentary through English and Scottish Ballads to the plays of Samuel Beckett and the stories of Guimarães Rosa, testifies to the vigour of the discipline. The range of texts is matched by a range of approach: from theoretical discussion of how text 'happens', to analysis of issues of book design and censorship, the connections between literary and textual studies, exploration of the links between reception and commodification in George Eliot, and between information theory and paratext. Through this diversity of subject and approach, a common theme emerges: the need to look further for common ground from which to continue the debate from a comparative perspective.

Author : David C. Greetham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136755799

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First published in 1994. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Textual Scholarship covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.

Author : Matthew James Driscoll
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783742410

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This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress of computer technology has changed the nature of textual scholarship at the most fundamental level: the way editors and scholars work, the tools they use to do such work and the research questions they attempt to answer have all been affected. Each of the essays in Digital Scholarly Editing approaches these changes with a different methodological consideration in mind. Together, they make a compelling case for re-evaluating the foundation of the discipline—one that tests its assertions against manuscripts and printed works from across literary history, and the globe. The sheer breadth of Digital Scholarly Editing, along with its successful integration of theory and practice, help redefine a rapidly-changing field, as its firm grounding and future-looking ambit ensure the work will be an indispensable starting point for further scholarship. This collection is essential reading for editors, scholars, students and readers who are invested in the future of textual scholarship and the digital humanities.

Author : Neil Fraistat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052151410X

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An introduction to studying and editing texts in all forms, from manuscript to digital.

Author : David C. Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199657815

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The book is going through its biggest revolution since Gutenberg. Thanks to computer tools and electronic publication, the concept and realisation of critical editions are being rethought. David C. Parker looks at how new methodology changes what an edition is for and how we use it, using the example of the New Testament texts.

Author : Wim Van Mierlo
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 9401209022

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This volume is the 10th issue of Variants. In keeping with the mission of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, the articles are richly interdisciplinary and transnational. They bring to bear a wide range of topics and disciplines on the field of textual scholarship: historical linguistics, digital scholarly editing, classical philology, Dutch, English, Finnish and Swedish Literature, publishing traditions in Japan, book history, cultural history and folklore. The questions that are explored — what texts are worth editing? what is the nature of the relationship between text, work, document and book? what is a critical digital edition? — all return to fundamental issues that have been at the heart of the editorial discipline for decades. With refreshing insight they assess the increasingly hybrid nature of the theoretical considerations and practical methodologies employed by textual scholars, while reasserting the relevance and need for producing scholarly editions, whether in print or digital, and continuing advanced research in bibliographical codes, textual transmissions, genetic dossiers, the fluidity of texts and other such Subjects that connect textual scholarship with broader investigations into our nations’ literary culture and written heritage.

Author : D. C. Greetham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1996-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472107162

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The distinguished annual in interdisciplinary textual studies

Author : Philipp Roelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110684381

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Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text whose autograph has been lost. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects of traditional as well as modern digital methods and their history. As an art (ars), stemmatology’s main goal is editing and thus presenting to the reader a historical text in the most satisfactory way. As a more abstract discipline (scientia), it is interested in the general principles of how texts change in the process of being copied. Thirty eight experts from all of the fields involved have joined forces to write this handbook, whose eight chapters cover material aspects of text traditions, the genesis and methods of traditional "Lachmannian" textual criticism and the objections raised against it, as well as modern digital methods used in the field. The two concluding chapters take a closer look at how this approach towards texts and textual criticism has developed in some disciplines of textual scholarship and compare methods used in other fields that deal with "descent with modification". The handbook thus serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary field.

Author : Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252028304

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Philology--the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical texts--was once a firmly established discipline that formed the core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and literary fields. Although philology departments are steadily disappearing from contemporary educational establishments, in this book Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht demonstrates that the problems, standards, and methods of philology remain as vital as ever. For two and a half millennia philologists have viewed themselves as the modest heirs and curators of their textual past's most glorious periods, collecting and editing text fragments, historicizing them and adding commentary, and ultimately teaching them to contemporary readers. Gumbrecht argues for a return to this tradition as an alternative to an often free-floating textual interpretation and to the more recent redefinition of literary studies as "cultural studies," which risks a loss of intellectual focus. Such a return to philological core exercises, however, can become more than yet another movement of academic nostalgia only if it takes into account the hidden desire that has inspired philology since its Hellenistic beginnings: the desire to make the past present again by embodying it.

Author : David C. Greetham
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415970273

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Addresses the spectrum of textual scholarship. Designed for editors, literary and textual critics, and students, this is an illustrated historical and methodological survey.