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Author | : Jerome J. McGann |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691217750 |
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.
Author | : Josephine Guy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136471928 |
In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these developments, which the authors term the ‘textual turn,’ this study examines the textual condition of nineteenth-century literature. The authors explore works by Dickens, Wilde, Hardy, Yeats, Swinburne, FitzGerald, Pater, Arnold, Pinero and Shaw, connecting questions about what a work textually ‘is’ with questions about why we read it and how we value it. The study asks whether the textual turn places us in a stronger position to analyze the value of a nineteenth-century text—not for readers of the nineteenth century, but of the twenty-first. The authors argue that this issue of value is central to their discipline.
Author | : Jerome J. McGann |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813914183 |
This work initiated a major shift in literary theory and method when it was first published in 1983. Starting from a critical inquiry into certain specialised issues in the practice of editing, A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism gradually unfolds an argument for a general revaluation of the grounds of literary study as a whole. McGann's point of departure is the controversy he opens with the once-dominant line of traditional textual and editorial scholarships as it evolved through the fundamental work of W.W. Greg, Fredson Bowers and G. Thomas Transelle. In departing from the canonical approach to the technical question of copy-text, McGann argues that theory of text must ground itself in a recovery of the entire productive and reproductive history of the text. His book proposes combining literary criticism and bibliographical scholarship with social, institutional and collaborative models of creation and production.
Author | : G. Thomas Tanselle |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081220042X |
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.
Author | : Mcgann |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813933771 |
This small but powerful book initiated a major shift in literary theory and method when it was first published in 1983. Starting from a critical inquiry into certain specialized issues in the practice of editing, McGann gradually unfolds an argument for a general revaluation of the grounds of literary study as a whole.
Author | : Julio Trebolle Barrera |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2020-06-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004426019 |
This volume contains a collection of Julio Trebolle’s papers on textual and compositional history of 1-2 Kings, via Septuagint, Old Latin. His research is a key contribution to the landscape of textual plurality in the history of the Bible.
Author | : Neil Fraistat |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 052151410X |
An introduction to studying and editing texts in all forms, from manuscript to digital.
Author | : Jerome McGann |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2022-07-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226818462 |
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.
Author | : Philip G. Cohen |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815319566 |
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : David C. Greetham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2015-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136755799 |
First published in 1994. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Textual Scholarship covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.