Textual scholarship and the material book / / edited by Wim Van Mierlo.

• Superior document: Variants ; 6
• Author: International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
• TeilnehmendeR: Van Mierlo, Wim.; International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (3rd : 2006 : London)
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, N.Y. : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Variants 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (iii, 320 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: " ... brings together a selection of papers, revised and updated, from the Third International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholaship ..."--Introduction.

In the last decades, the emphasis in textual scholarship has moved onto creation, production, process, collaboration; onto the material manifestations of a work; onto multiple rather than single versions; onto reception and book history. Textual scholarship now includes not only textual editing, but any form of scholarship that looks at the materiality of text, of writing, of reading, and of the book. The essays in this collection explore many questions, about methodology and theory, arising from this widening scope of textual scholarship. The range of texts discussed, from Sanskrit epic via Medieval Latin commentary through English and Scottish Ballads to the plays of Samuel Beckett and the stories of Guimarães Rosa, testifies to the vigour of the discipline. The range of texts is matched by a range of approach: from theoretical discussion of how text ‘happens’, to analysis of issues of book design and censorship, the connections between literary and textual studies, exploration of the links between reception and commodification in George Eliot, and between information theory and paratext. Through this diversity of subject and approach, a common theme emerges: the need to look further for common ground from which to continue the debate from a comparative perspective.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Why “Text” Happens Won’t Do for Fulke Greville (or Anyone Else) / John Gouws -- Editorial Scholarship and Literary Studies: Reflections on their Relationship from a German Perspective / Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth -- Genetic Editing and Beckett's Multiple Intentions / Dirk Van Hulle -- Coleridge and Yeats: The Romantic Voice / J.C.C Mays -- More than Mise-en-Page: Book Design and German Editing / Bodo Plachta -- Towards a Scholarly Edition of Samuel Beckett's Watt / Chris Ackerley -- Editing the Child Ballads: Agency, Intention, and the Problem of Version / David Atkinson -- A Discussion about Textual Eugenics: Still Searching for the Perfect Mahābhārata? / Wendy J. Phillips-Rodriguez -- How a Poem Became a Book of Poetry: Conflict of Folkloristic, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches in the Publications of a Nineteenth-Century Classic of Lithuanian Literature / Paulius V. Subačius -- The Impossible Task of Editing a Ninth-Century Commentary: The Case of Martianus Capella / Mariken Teeuwen -- Beckett Publishing / Publishing Beckett in the 1930s / Mark Nixon -- Masterworks and Merchandise: Showing off the Goods of Middlemarch / Simon Frost -- Discourse analysis and book history: Literary indexing as social dialogue / Susan Kovacs -- On the Study of Everyday Writings: Portuguese Letters from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Rita Marquilhas -- Forms of Crossing: Book and margin in the work of Guimarães Rosa / Clara Rowland -- Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, editions. A Companion to the History of the Book. / Peter Garside -- Lou Burnard, Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and John Unsworth, editions. Electronic Textual Editing. / Jan Broadway -- Caroline Macé, Philippe Baret, Andrea Bozzi, Laura Cignoni, editions. The Evolution of Texts: Confronting Stemmatological and Genetical Methods / Tuomas Heikkilä -- Alexandra Gillespie. Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books 1473-1557 / Reiko Takeda -- Klara Vanek. “Ars corrigendi” in der frühen Neuzeit: Studien zur Geschichte der Textkritik / John L. Flood -- Luca Crispi and Sam Slote, editions. How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide / Christine Lees -- Genesis: Revue internationale de critique génétique 28 / Scarlett Baron -- Anderï Mikhailov and Daniel Ferrer, editions. La textologie russe: Anthologie / Geert Lernout -- Notes on Contributors / Wim van Mierlo.