Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780521766579 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 206 str.

Richard Tarrant

Opis

A critical reassessment of the methods of Latin textual criticism and editing, in a form accessible to non-specialists.

Recenzje

'… this is an excellent book both in itself and because it puts so many things into question. It paves the way for a huge improvement in the editing of classical texts.' Franz Dolveck, École française de Rome

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Textual criticism in a post-heroic age; 2. The rhetoric of textual criticism/textual criticism as rhetoric; 3. Establishing the text 1: recension; 4. Establishing the text 2: conjecture; 5. Establishing the text 3: interpolation, collaboration, and intertextuality; 6. Textual criticism and literary criticism: the case of Propertius; 7. Presenting the text: the critical edition and its discontents; 8. The future: problems and prospects; Appendix: reading a critical apparatus.