Textual Editing & Criticism Cl

by Kelemen,Erick

• ISBN13: 9780393929423
• ISBN10: 0393929426
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This book introduces undergraduate and beginning graduate students to the field and provides them with a broad range of examples and materials for hands-on practice. Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction is concerned with both the history of the text and the aesthetic and political choices made in textual transmission. It is intended for courses concerned with questions of literary interpretation and value.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Why Study Textual Editing and Criticism	p. 3
Text Technologies and Textual Transmissions	p. 29
Textual Criticism and Kinds of Editions	p. 73
from "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism"	p. 123
"The Rationale of Copy-Text"	p. 135
"The Aesthetics of Textual Criticism"	p. 154
"The Textual Event"	p. 194
"The Shakespearean Editor as Shrew-Tamer"	p. 226
"Editing without a Copy-Text"	p. 253
from The First Folio of Shakespeare	p. 281
"Gon. No more, the text is foolish"	p. 287
"Producing Manuscripts and Editions"	p. 333
"Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority"	p. 363
Working with Editions
from Mansfield Park	p. 387
from Moll Flanders	p. 392
"Art"	p. 412
from King Lear and Othello	p. 418
["Safe in their alabaster chambers"]	p. 441
Working with Documents
from The Tragedie of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry	p. 473
"On the Death of the Reverend Dr. Sewell"	p. 483
from Frankenstein	p. 495
"Truth"	p. 509
"Poetry"	p. 554
Glossary	p. 567
Selected Bibliography	p. 577
Credits	p. 589
Index	p. 593
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