Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship

Informationen zum Autor Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. Julia Flanders is Director of the Women Writers Project in the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library. Klappentext An introduction to studying and editing texts in all forms, from manuscript to digital. Zusammenfassung In the digital age! it has become more important than ever before to understand how the medium affects the text. The expert contributors to this volume provide a clear! engrossing and accessible insight into how the texts we read and study are created! shaped and transmitted to us. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: textual scholarship in the age of media consciousness Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders; 1. A history of textual scholarship David Greetham; 2. Anglo-American editorial theory Kathryn Sutherland; 3. Continental editorial theory Geert Lernout; 4. Late twentieth-century Shakespeares Hans Walter Gabler; 5. Apparatus, text, interface: how to read a printed critical edition Paul Eggert; 6. The politics of textual scholarship Michelle R. Warren; 7. Fearful asymmetry Random Cloud; 8. What is a book? Roger Chartier and Peter Stallybrass; 9. Orality John D. Niles; 10. Manuscript textuality Michael Sargent; 11. Picture criticism: textual studies and the image Kari Kraus; 12. Track changes: textual scholarship and the challenge of the born digital Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and Doug Reside; Coda: why digital textual scholarship matters Jerome J. McGann; Further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Flanders Fraistat
• Assisted by: Julia Flanders (Editor), Flanders Julia (Editor), Neil Fraistat (Editor), Fraistat Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9780521514101
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51410-1
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Literary studies: general, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade