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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825800103321

Autore

Shillingsburg Peter L.

Titolo

Textuality and knowledge : essays / / Peter L. Shillingsburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-271-07995-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages :) : illustrations ;

Collana

The Penn State series in the history of the book

Disciplina

801.959

Soggetti

Criticism, Textual

Editing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The evidence for literary knowledge -- Textual criticism, the humanities, and J. M. Coetzee -- The semiotics of bibliography -- Some functions of textual criticism -- Responsibility for textual changes in long-distance revisions -- Text as communication -- Revisiting authorial intentions -- How literary works exist -- Convenient scholarly editions -- Scholarly editing as a cultural enterprise -- Work and text in nonliterary text-based disciplines -- Publishers' records and the history of book production -- Cultural heritage, textuality, and social justice.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--