A rationale of textual criticism / / G. Thomas Tanselle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808011103321
• Autore: Tanselle G. Thomas (George Thomas), <1934->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 1989; ©1989
• ISBN: 1-283-21090-8; 9786613210906; 0-8122-0042-X; 0-585-12742-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (105 pages)
• Collana: A Publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography
• Disciplina: 801/.959
• Soggetti: Criticism, Textual
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Slightly rev. lectures delivered on Apr. 21, 23, and 28, 1987 as the Rosenbach lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.; First paperback printing 1992.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. The Nature of Texts -- 2. Reproducing the Texts of Documents -- 3. Reconstructing the Texts of Works -- Postscript -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to analyze. G. Thomas Tanselle argues, on the contrary, that the two activities cannot be separated. The textual critic, in choosing among textual variants and correcting what appear to be textual errors, inevitably exercises critical judgment and reflects a particular point of view toward the nature of literature. And the literary critic, in interpreting the meaning of a work or passage, needs to be (though rarely is) critical of the makeup of every text of it, including those produced by scholarly editors.