A rationale of textual criticism / G. Thomas Tanselle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934-

Series:

Publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography.

A Publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to analyze. G. Thomas Tanselle argues, on the contrary, that the two activities cannot be separated. The textual critic, in choosing among textual variants and correcting what appear to be textual errors, inevitably exercises critical judgment and reflects a particular point of view toward the nature of literature. And the literary critic, in interpreting the meaning of a work or passage, needs to be (though rarely is) critical of the makeup of every text of it, including those produced by scholarly editors.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Preface

1. The Nature of Texts

2. Reproducing the Texts of Documents

3. Reconstructing the Texts of Works

Postscript

INDEX

Notes:

Slightly rev. lectures delivered on Apr. 21, 23, and 28, 1987 as the Rosenbach lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.

First paperback printing 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613210906

9781283210904

1283210908

9780812200423

081220042X

9780585127422

0585127425

OCLC:

606505965