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
Twenty essays, most published between the middle 1970s and the middle 1990s document Greetham's intellectual career as it has been influenced over tim...
This book is the first to address the entire spectrum of textual scholarship. Designed for editors, literary and textual critics, and students, this historical and methodological survey is richly illustrated .
This book is the first to address the entire spectrum of textual scholarship. Designed for editors, literary and textual critics, and students, this h...
This collection of twenty-six essays, written by acknowledged experts in literary studies, surveys the history of scholarly editing, describes the major research in a variety of disciplines, summarizes the resources available to scholars, and analyzes the issues currently facing textual editors.The book begins with an overview of scholarly editing, followed by four essays on the long tradition of editing the Bible and the Greek and Latin classics. The next cluster of essays proceeds through the major periods of British and American literature, from medieval to modern, further subdividing the...
This collection of twenty-six essays, written by acknowledged experts in literary studies, surveys the history of scholarly editing, describes the maj...
Theories of the Text is the first comprehensive account of the changing practice of bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing in the light of the diverse currents of contemporary critical theory. It offers both a much-needed introduction to the history of textual debate and a timely account of the current hotly contested debates over such issues as authorial intention, textual organicism, the socialization of the text, and intertextuality. Despite the positivist tradition of textual scholarship, D. C. Greetham argues, such work is a hermeneutic activity taking place within...
Theories of the Text is the first comprehensive account of the changing practice of bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing in the ligh...
