Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the role of textual studies in understanding and editing texts, and in understanding the historical developments and cultural differences in editorial and archival systems.
Trade Review“There are big issues at stake in this restless symposium of a book, for it is brave and honest. Every research library serving the humanities needs to order a copy of it, and textual scholars will want to do so as well.”
—Paul Eggert Textual Cultures
“Records the thinking of one of our strongest editorial theorists as the study of the book bent—or did not bend—to the winds of change during the first decade of the millennium.”
—The Library
“Shillingsburg’s insistence that we insist on the importance of provenance in our classrooms and editions is timely, urgent and — as we would expect — supported by the soundest available textual evidence.”
—Barbara Cooke The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction and Acknowledgements
1 The Evidence for Literary Knowledge
2 Textual Criticism, the Humanities, and J. M. Coetzee
3 The Semiotics of Bibliography
4 Some Functions of Textual Criticism
5 Long Distance Revision
6 Text as Communication
7 The Archive and the Critical Edition: Intentions Revisited
8 How Literary Works Exist
9 Convenient Scholarly Editions
10 Scholarly Editing as a Cultural Enterprise
11 Work and Text in Non-Literary Text-Based Disciplines
12 Publishers' Records and the History of Book Production
13 Cultural Heritage, Textuality, and Social Justice
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