Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A.

Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A.
Author: Clarence Gohdes
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822305927

This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).

An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies

An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies
Author: Craig S. Abbott
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603292357

To a reader of Joyce's Ulysses, it makes a difference whether one of Stephen Dedalus's first thoughts is "No mother" (as in the printed version) or "No, mother!" (as in the manuscript). The scholarship surrounding such textual differences--and why this discipline should concern readers and literary scholars alike--is the focus of William Proctor Williams and Craig S. Abbott's acclaimed handbook. This updated, fourth edition outlines the study of texts' composition, revision, physical embodiments, process of transmission, and manner of reception; describes how new technologies such as digital imaging and electronic tagging have changed the way we produce, read, preserve, and research texts; discusses why these matters are central to a historical understanding of literature; and shows how the insights, methods, and products of bibliographical and textual studies can be applied to other branches of scholarship.

Principles of Bibliographical Description

Principles of Bibliographical Description
Author: Fredson Bowers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1994-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781873040027

This comprehensive manual remains the central book in bibliographical work, and an essential tool for researchers and students in all fields.

Films Into Books

Films Into Books
Author: Randall D. Larson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Bibliography of novels based on films. Not many books like this.

Descriptive Bibliography

Descriptive Bibliography
Author: George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Bibliography, Critical
ISBN: 9781883631192

"This book offers a comprehensive guide to descriptive bibliography--the activity of describing books as physical objects. The function of descriptive bibliography is to provide detailed historical accounts of the varied material forms in which texts have been transmitted and to show the relationships among those examples that claim to carry texts of the same work. The first part of this book contains five essays on general topics: an introduction to the field and its history; its relation to library cataloguing; the concept of ideal copy; the meanings of edition, impression, issue, and state; and tolerances in reporting details. The second part covers more specific subjects: transcription and collation; format; paper; typography and layout; typesetting and presswork; non-letterpress material; publishers' bindings, endpapers, and jackets; and overall arrangement. At the end is an appendix containing a sample description with detailed commentary, followed by a record of the literature of descriptive bibliography"--

Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts

Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
Author: D. F. McKenzie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1999-09-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521644952

In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of lasting value are reproduced, re-edited and re-read, they take on different forms and meanings. By witnessing the new needs of their new readers these new forms constitute vital evidence for any history of reading. McKenzie shows this is true of all forms of recorded information, including sound, graphics, films, representations of landscape and the new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book, which incorporates McKenzie's classic work on orality and literacy in early New Zealand, offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.

Lanzelet

Lanzelet
Author: Ulrich (von Zatzikhoven)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Arthurian romances
ISBN: 9780231128681

This new translation of one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story has been prepared with the highest accuracy and scholarly insight available to date. It includes a new introduction and revised bibliography, notes from the first English translation by Webster and the textual changes by famed Arthurian scholar Loomis, and a commentary reflecting the fifty years of scholarship on "Lanzelet" since the publication of Webster's translation.