Theories of the Text

by Greetham, D. C.

• ISBN13: 9780198119937
• ISBN10: 0198119933
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-29
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Theories of the Text is the first comprehensive account of the changing practice of bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing in the light of the diverse currents of contemporary critical theory. It offers both a much-needed introduction to the history of textual debate and a timely account of the current hotly contested debates over such issues as authorial intention, textual organicism, the socialization of the text, and intertextuality. Despite the positivist tradition of textual scholarship, D. C. Greetham argues, such work is a hermeneutic activity taking place within certain (usually unacknowledged) social and cultural conceptual constraints.

Author Biography

David Greetham is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the City University of New York, and Founder and Executive Director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Ontology: Being in the Text	p. 26
The History of the Text	p. 64
The Forms of the Text: Formalism, Modernism, and Beyond	p. 126
Intention in the Text	p. 157
The Phenomenology and Reading of the Text	p. 206
The Psychoanalysis of Texts	p. 245
Structure and Sign in the Text: Structuralism and Semiotics	p. 276
The Deconstruction of the Text: [textual] Criticism and Deconstruction	p. 326
Society and Culture in the Text	p. 367
Gender in the Text	p. 433
Bibliography	p. 487
General Index	p. 541
Subject Index	p. 562
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