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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253222168
ISBN-13
9780253222169
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77921007
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
402 Pages
Publication Name
Pleasures of Contamination : Evidence, Text, and Voice in Textual Studies
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Medieval, Authorship, Semiotics & Theory
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Textual Cultures: Theory and Praxis Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-052649
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
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. . . particularly impressive in its engaging style and wide-ranging scope ... The writing throughout is smart and fun. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. July 2011, ... particularly impressive in its engaging style and wide-ranging scope... The writing throughout is smart and fun... Summing Up: Highly recommended., "... particularly impressive in its engaging style and wide-ranging scope... The writing throughout is smart and fun... Summing Up: Highly recommended." -Choice, July 2011, As the first release in the 'Textual Cultures: Theory and Praxis' series, which was created as a complement to the journal Textual Cultures (2006- ), this volume connects medieval studies to postmodernism as it theorizes textual scholarship. Greetham (CUNY Graduate School; founder, Society for Textual Scholarship) is known for his expertise in scholarly editing, and this book is particularly impressive in its engaging style and wide-ranging scope. The author theorizes the complexities and joys of textual scholarship informed by awareness of open-ended influences, allusions, transpositions, and palimpsests--textual connections that Greetham labels 'contamination.' Divided into three parts (the evidence, text, and voice of the subtitle), the book unpacks many of the challenges and possibilities open to textual scholars when their work is understood as critical and interpretive rather than objective. In each of the 12 chapters, Greetham moves beyond disciplinary boundaries, astutely connecting textual scholarship to diverse fields such as music, biology, television, film, law, and politics. He thus not only discusses but also enacts 'the pleasures of contamination' as he brings various discourses together. The writing throughout is smart and fun... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. --Choice L. McMillan, Marywood University, July 2011, "As the first release in the 'Textual Cultures: Theory and Praxis' series, which was created as a complement to the journal Textual Cultures (2006- ), this volume connects medieval studies to postmodernism as it theorizes textual scholarship. Greetham (CUNY Graduate School; founder, Society for Textual Scholarship) is known for his expertise in scholarly editing, and this book is particularly impressive in its engaging style and wide-ranging scope. The author theorizes the complexities and joys of textual scholarship informed by awareness of open-ended influences, allusions, transpositions, and palimpsests--textual connections that Greetham labels 'contamination.' Divided into three parts (the evidence, text, and voice of the subtitle), the book unpacks many of the challenges and possibilities open to textual scholars when their work is understood as critical and interpretive rather than objective. In each of the 12 chapters, Greetham moves beyond disciplinary boundaries, astutely connecting textual scholarship to diverse fields such as music, biology, television, film, law, and politics. He thus not only discusses but also enacts 'the pleasures of contamination' as he brings various discourses together. The writing throughout is smart and fun. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. --Choice"-- L. McMillan, Marywood University, July 2011 ". . . particularly impressive in its engaging style and wide-ranging scope ... The writing throughout is smart and fun. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. July 2011"-- Choice, As the first release in the 'Textual Cultures: Theory and Praxis' series, which was created as a complement to the journal Textual Cultures (2006- ), this volume connects medieval studies to postmodernism as it theorizes textual scholarship. Greetham (CUNY Graduate School; founder, Society for Textual Scholarship) is known for his expertise in scholarly editing, and this book is particularly impressive in its engaging style and wide-ranging scope. The author theorizes the complexities and joys of textual scholarship informed by awareness of open-ended influences, allusions, transpositions, and palimpsests--textual connections that Greetham labels 'contamination.' Divided into three parts (the evidence, text, and voice of the subtitle), the book unpacks many of the challenges and possibilities open to textual scholars when their work is understood as critical and interpretive rather than objective. In each of the 12 chapters, Greetham moves beyond disciplinary boundaries, astutely connecting textual scholarship to diverse fields such as music, biology, television, film, law, and politics. He thus not only discusses but also enacts 'the pleasures of contamination' as he brings various discourses together. The writing throughout is smart and fun... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. --Choice L. McMillan, Marywood University, July 2011--L. McMillan, Marywood University (01/01/2011)
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
801.959
Synopsis
Tracing contamination from the Middle Ages onward, he takes up issues such as the placement of quote marks in Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn,the controversy over the use of evidence for "yellowcakeuranium in Niger, and the reconstitution of reality on YouTube, to illustrate that the basic questions of evidence, fact, and voice have always been slippery concepts., Through the concept of contamination, David Greetham highlights various ways that one text may invade another, carrying with it a residue of potential meaning. While the focus of this study is on written works, the scope ranges widely over music, politics, art, science, philosophy, religion, and social studies. Greetham argues that this sort of contamination is not only ubiquitous in contemporary culture, but may also be a necessary and beneficial circumstance. Tracing contamination from the Middle Ages onward, he takes up issues such as the placement of quote marks in Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn," the controversy over the use of evidence for "yellowcake" uranium in Niger, and the reconstitution of reality on YouTube, to illustrate that the basic questions of evidence, fact, and voice have always been slippery concepts.
LC Classification Number
P47.G73 2010
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