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Product Identifiers

PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press

ISBN-100271078502

ISBN-139780271078502

eBay Product ID (ePID)236631136

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTextuality and Knowledge : Essays

Publication Year2017

SubjectEditing & Proofreading, Publishing, Industries / Media & Communications, General, Books & Reading

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Business & Economics

AuthorPeter Shillingsburg

SeriesPenn State Series in the History of the Book Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-000666

Reviews"Shillingsburg's insistence that we insist on the importance of provenance in our classrooms and editions is timely, urgent and -- as we would expect -- supported by the soundest available textual evidence." --Barbara Cooke, The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, "There are big issues at stake in this restless symposium of a book, for it is brave and honest. Every research library serving the humanities needs to order a copy of it, and textual scholars will want to do so as well." --Paul Eggert, Textual Cultures, "There are big issues at stake in this restless symposium of a book, for it is brave and honest. Every research library serving the humanities needs to order a copy of it, and textual scholars will want to do so as well." --Paul Eggert Textual Cultures, "Shillingsburg's insistence that we insist on the importance of provenance in our classrooms and editions is timely, urgent and -- as we would expect -- supported by the soundest available textual evidence." --Barbara Cooke The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, "Records the thinking of one of our strongest editorial theorists as the study of the book bent--or did not bend--to the winds of change during the first decade of the millennium." -- The Library, "Records the thinking of one of our strongest editorial theorists as the study of the book bent-or did not bend-to the winds of change during the first decade of the millennium." - The Library, "There are big issues at stake in this restless symposium of a book, for it is brave and honest. Every research library serving the humanities needs to order a copy of it, and textual scholars will want to do so as well." -Paul Eggert, Textual Cultures

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number27

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal801.959

Table Of ContentContents Introduction and Acknowledgements 1 The Evidence for Literary Knowledge 2 Textual Criticism, the Humanities, and J. M. Coetzee 3 The Semiotics of Bibliography 4 Some Functions of Textual Criticism 5 Long Distance Revision 6 Text as Communication 7 The Archive and the Critical Edition: Intentions Revisited 8 How Literary Works Exist 9 Convenient Scholarly Editions 10 Scholarly Editing as a Cultural Enterprise 11 Work and Text in Non-Literary Text-Based Disciplines 12 Publishers' Records and the History of Book Production 13 Cultural Heritage, Textuality, and Social Justice Bibliography

SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the role of textual studies in understanding and editing texts, and in understanding the historical developments and cultural differences in editorial and archival systems., In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship. Through thirteen essays, Shillingsburg argues that literary study depends on documents, the preservation of works, and textual replication, and he traces how this proposition affects understanding. He explains the consequences of textual knowledge (and ignorance) in teaching, reading, and research--and in the generous impulses behind the digitization of cultural documents. He also examines the ways in which facile assumptions about a text can lead one astray, discusses how differing international and cultural understandings of the importance of documents and their preservation shape both knowledge about and replication of works, and assesses the dissemination of information in the context of ethics and social justice. In bringing these wide-ranging pieces together, Shillingsburg reveals how and why meaning changes with each successive rendering of a work, the value in viewing each subsequent copy of a text as an original entity, and the relationship between textuality and knowledge. Featuring case studies throughout, this erudite collection distills decades of Shillingsburg's thought on literary history and criticism and appraises the place of textual studies and scholarly editing today.

LC Classification NumberP47.S35 2017