Textual scholarship and the material book / edited by Wim Van Mierlo.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Van Mierlo, Wim.

Conference Name:

International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (3rd : 2006 : London)

Series:

Variants 6.

Variants ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transmission of texts.

Books--History.

Books.

Bibliography, Critical.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 320 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Why “Text” Happens Won’t Do for Fulke Greville (or Anyone Else) / John Gouws

Editorial Scholarship and Literary Studies: Reflections on their Relationship from a German Perspective / Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth

Genetic Editing and Beckett's Multiple Intentions / Dirk Van Hulle

Coleridge and Yeats: The Romantic Voice / J.C.C Mays

More than Mise-en-Page: Book Design and German Editing / Bodo Plachta

Towards a Scholarly Edition of Samuel Beckett's Watt / Chris Ackerley

Editing the Child Ballads: Agency, Intention, and the Problem of Version / David Atkinson

A Discussion about Textual Eugenics: Still Searching for the Perfect Mahābhārata? / Wendy J. Phillips-Rodriguez

How a Poem Became a Book of Poetry: Conflict of Folkloristic, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches in the Publications of a Nineteenth-Century Classic of Lithuanian Literature / Paulius V. Subačius

The Impossible Task of Editing a Ninth-Century Commentary: The Case of Martianus Capella / Mariken Teeuwen

Beckett Publishing / Publishing Beckett in the 1930s / Mark Nixon

Masterworks and Merchandise: Showing off the Goods of Middlemarch / Simon Frost

Discourse analysis and book history: Literary indexing as social dialogue / Susan Kovacs

On the Study of Everyday Writings: Portuguese Letters from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Rita Marquilhas

Forms of Crossing: Book and margin in the work of Guimarães Rosa / Clara Rowland

Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, editions. A Companion to the History of the Book. / Peter Garside

Lou Burnard, Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and John Unsworth, editions. Electronic Textual Editing. / Jan Broadway

Caroline Macé, Philippe Baret, Andrea Bozzi, Laura Cignoni, editions. The Evolution of Texts: Confronting Stemmatological and Genetical Methods / Tuomas Heikkilä

Alexandra Gillespie. Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books 1473-1557 / Reiko Takeda

Klara Vanek. “Ars corrigendi” in der frühen Neuzeit: Studien zur Geschichte der Textkritik / John L. Flood

Luca Crispi and Sam Slote, editions. How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide / Christine Lees

Genesis: Revue internationale de critique génétique 28 / Scarlett Baron

Anderï Mikhailov and Daniel Ferrer, editions. La textologie russe: Anthologie / Geert Lernout

Notes on Contributors / Wim van Mierlo.

Notes:

" ... brings together a selection of papers, revised and updated, from the Third International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholaship ..."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-420-2818-1

OCLC:

505748737

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042028180 DOI