Textual Transgressions: Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography

ISBN-13: 9780815313403 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 618 str.

D. C. Greetham; David Greetham

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Twenty essays, most published between the middle 1970s and the middle 1990s document Greetham's intellectual career as it has been influenced over time. Among his topics are textual criticism in graduate education, models for the textual transmission of translation, normalization and challenges in e

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Introduction: Text as Transgression * Textual Criticism in Graduate Education * Concept of Nature in Bartholomaeus Anglicus * Models for the Textual Transmission of Translation: The Case of John Trevisa * Normalization of Accidentals in Middle English Texts: The Paradox of Thomas Hoccleve * Challenges of Theory and Practice in the Editing of Hoccleve's Regement of Princes * A Suspicion of Texts * Place of Fredson Bowers in Mediaeval Editing * Textual and Literary Theory: Redrawing the Matrix * Self-Referential Artifacts: Hoccleve's Persona as a Literary Device * Politics and Ideology in Anglo-American Textual Scholarship * Slips and Errors in Textual Criticism * [Textual] Criticism and Deconstruction * Manifestation and Accommodation of Theory in Textual Editing * Materiality of Textual Editing * Books as Meaning/Meaning in the Book * A Reader's Response * On Cultural Translation: From Patristic Repository to Shakespeare's Encyclopaedia * Alterity and the Editing of Middle English Literature * Editorial and Critical Theory: From Modernism to Post-Modernism * Textual Imperialism and Post-Colonial Bibliography * Rights to Copy

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David Greetham