With emphasis on the theoretical and methodological, the studies collected here serve a dual purpose: to explore the fault lines that mark various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from New Criticism to Poststructuralism; and to develop a fully elaborated socio-historical criticism for literary works. McGann moves toward his goal by means of four special sets of investigations: the relation between the so-called "autonomous" poem and its political/historical contexts; the relation of reception and history to literary interpretation; the problems of canon and the characterization of...
With emphasis on the theoretical and methodological, the studies collected here serve a dual purpose: to explore the fault lines that mark various kin...
To be completed in six volumes, this work represents the first comprehensive re-editing of Byron's poetry in over 75 years. The editor's commentaries about the texts and contexts of Byron's works reflect the access to a vast amount of original documents and manuscripts.
To be completed in six volumes, this work represents the first comprehensive re-editing of Byron's poetry in over 75 years. The editor's commentaries ...
The penultimate work in the Oxford English Text's Byron Series, this volume, described by Ian Jack as "one of the finest editions we have of any of the Romantic poets," contains all Byron's works of 1821 and 1822, including his late plays--The Two Foscari, Sardanapalus, Cain: A Mystery, and the unfinished, The Deformed Transformed.
The penultimate work in the Oxford English Text's Byron Series, this volume, described by Ian Jack as "one of the finest editions we have of any of th...
For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In "The Scholar s Art, "a collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports. Of particular interest to McGann is the demise of public discourse about poetry. That poetry has become recondite is, to his mind, at once a problem for how scholars do their work and a general cultural emergency. "The Scholar s Art" asks what could be gained by reimagining...
For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and ...
Jerome McGann has been at the forefront of the digital revolution in the humanities. His pioneering critical projects on the World Wide Web have redefined traditional notions about interpreting literature. In this trailblazing book, McGann explores the profound implications digital media have for the core critical tasks of the humanities.Drawing on his work as editor of the acclaimed hypertext project "The Rossetti Archive," he sets the foundation for a new critical practice for the digital age. Digital media, he demonstrates, can do much more than organize access to great works of literature...
Jerome McGann has been at the forefront of the digital revolution in the humanities. His pioneering critical projects on the World Wide Web have redef...
Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to...
Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in r...
"English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible...
"English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist w...
