A01=Philip G. Cohen
advanced textual scholarship studies
Alabaster Chambers
Animal Kingdom
Au Thor
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Catherine Wheels
Charlotte Brewer
Complex Metrical Structure
Dickinson's Texts
digital humanities scholarship
editorial theory
Electronic Writing
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Final Authorial Intention
Good Grey Poet
historical versions analysis
Hypertextual Theory
Interpretive Instability
interpretive methodologies
Lemon Gardens
literary transmission
Middle English Alliterative Verse
Navajo Healing
Navajo Healing Ceremony
Princess Casamassima
Prior Intention
textual criticism
Victory Garden
Wheatley's Book
Wheatley's Poems
Wheatley's Poetry
Young Man
Yu Tsun
Product details
- ISBN 9780815319566
- Weight: 810g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis, transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring the connections between textual instability and textual theory, interpretation, and pedagogy.
What makes this collection unique is that each essay brings a different theoretical orientation-New Historicism, Poststructuralism, or Feminism-to bear upon a different text, such as Whitman's Leaves of Grass , Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, or hypertext fiction, to explore the dialectical relationship between texts and textuality.
The essays bring some of the textual theories that compete with each other today into contact with a broad range of primarily literary textual histories. That texts are intrinsically unstable, frequently consisting of a series of determinate historical versions, has consequences for all students of literature, because different versions of a literary work frequently help shape different readings independently of the interpretations brought to bear upon them. Textual instability of the works is relevant to our understanding of how the meanings of texts are generated. The contributors build on the numerous challenges to the Anglo-American editorial tradition mounted during the past decade by scholars as diverse as Jerome McGann, D.F. McKenzie, Peter Shillingsburg, D.C. Greetham, Hershel Parker, and Hans Walter Gabler. The volume contributes to the paradigm shift in textual scholarship inaugurated by these scholars. Index.
