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Textuality and Knowledge:

Essays
  • ISBN-13: 9780271078502
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Peter Shillingsburg
  • Price: AUD $249.00
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2017
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Press & journalism [KNTJ]
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A 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.


Contents

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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“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

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