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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Raimonda Modiano, Leroy F. Searle, and Peter L. Shillingsburg Klappentext Raimonda Modiano and Leroy F. Searle are professors of English and comparative literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Peter Shillingsburg is professor of English at the University of North Texas. Zusammenfassung Illustrates why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically over the years. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions! this volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Textual Space 1. Emerging Questions: Text and Theory in Contemporary Criticism, Leroy F. Searle 2. The Function of [Textual] Criticism at the Present Time, David Greetham 3. The Text Between the Voice and the Book, Roger Chartier 4. Editing and Auditing Marginalia, H. J. Jackson Part II. Oral Text 5. Spoke, Written, Incarnate: Ontologies of Textuality in Classical Rabbinic Judaism, Martin S. Jaffee 6. Textualization as Mediation: The Case of Traditional Oral Epic, John Miles Foley 7. Bhakti Literature: An "Oral-Scribal" Archetype, Winand M. Callewaert Part III. Material Text 8. Text, Script, and Media: New Observations on Scribal Activity in the Ancient Near East, Scott B. Noegel 9. Magical Texts and Popular Literacy: Vulgarizations, Iterations, or Appropriations?, Phyllis Culham 10. The Way of All Text: The Materialist Shakespeare, Paul Eggert 11. Gerard Hopkins and the Shapes of His Sonnets, Randall McLeod 12. The Flights of A821: Dearchiving the Proceedings of a Birdsong, Marta Werner Part IV. Subersive/Subverted Text 13. Reinterpreting Text: When Revealed Sanskrit Texts Become Modern Law Books, Ludo Rocher 14. Czech Underground Literature, 1969-1989: A Challenge to Textual Studies, Martin Machovec Part V. Electronic Text 15. The Reality of Electronic Editions, Susan Hockey 16. Imagining What You Don't Know: The Theoretical Goals of the Rossetti Archive, Jerome McGann Part VI. Textual Maintenance 17. Old and New in Italian Textual Criticism, Conor Fahy 18. Hagiolatry, Cultural Engineering, Moment Building, and Other Functions of Scholarly Editing, Peter Shillingsburg Contributors Index ...
