The life of texts : evidence in textual production, transmission and reception / edited by Carlo Caruso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caruso, Carlo, editor.

Series:

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2018.

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2018

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transmission of texts.

Manuscripts--Reproduction.

Manuscripts.

Manuscripts--Editing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages).

Place of Publication:

[London] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer, Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be they papyri, manuscripts or printed editions. Notions of textual authority have varied considerably across the ages under the influence of different (and differently motivated) agents, such as scribes, annotators, editors, correctors, grammarians, printers and publishers, over and above the authors themselves. The need for preserving the written legacy of peoples and nations as faithfully as possible has always been counterbalanced by a duty to ensure its accessibility to successive generations at different times and in different cultural contexts. The ten chapters collected in this volume offer critical approaches to such authors and texts as Homer, the Bible, The Thousand and One Nights, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Eliot, but also Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts uniquely combining word and image, as well as Beethoven's 'Tempest' sonata (Op. 31, No. 2) as seen from the angle of music as text. Together the contributors argue that an awareness of what the 'life of texts' entails is essential for a critical understanding of the transmission of culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Conceiving the life of texts / Richard Gameson

Editing Homer / Barbara Graziosi

The Canon and the Codex: on the material form of the Christian Bible / Francis Watson

Wandering nights: Shahraz'd's Mutations / Daniel Newman

A text in exile: Dante's Divine Comedy / Annalisa Cipollone

Textual metamorphosis: the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci / Carlo Vecce

Montaigne: the life and after life of an unfinished text / John O'Brien

Rescuing Shakespeare: King Lear and its textual contexts / David Fuller

Textual evidence and musical analysis: once more on the first movement of Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 / Julian Horton

Fragments Shored against ruin: reassembling the waste land / Jason Harding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2018 dcunns

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781350039087

OCLC:

1066741978

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.