The textual condition / Jerome J. McGann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGann, Jerome J.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transmission of texts.

English literature--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Editing.

Criticism, Textual.

American literature.

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature--Criticism, Textual.

English literature--Criticism, Textual.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Critique textuelle.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.

Summary:

Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies of literary works as they are generated over time by authors, editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats, Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Texts and Textualities

Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths

1. Theory, Literary Pragmatics, and the Editorial Horizon

2. What Is Critical Editing?

3. The Socialization of Texts

4. The Textual Condition

Part Two: Ezra Pound in the Sixth Chamber

5. How to Read a Book

6. Pound's Cantos: A Poem Including Bibliography

7. Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691069319

069106931X

9780691217758

0691217750

OCLC:

1193036114