New essays exploring the complex issues involved in editing Middle English texts.
Recent developments in literary theory have subjected traditionalnotions of the status of author, text and readers to intensive scrutiny.These concerns have major implications for scholars working on thetheory of editing texts, especially in considering the question ofwhich version of a text (if more than one survives) should be published,and how other versions, and other evidence, should be taken into account.
The enterprise of editing Middle Englishtexts - works produced before printing - raises and focuses these issues in an especially interesting form. In particular, controversy has raged about how best to resolve the textual problems presented by Piers Plowman andThe Canterbury Tales. This volumeaddresses many of the issues which face the editors of Middle English texts today.
Contributors: DEREK PEARSALL, T.W. MACHAN, NORMAN BLAKE, NICHOLAS JACOBS, S.S. HUSSEY, RALPH HANNA III, CHARLOTTE BREWER, ANNE HUDSON.
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An admirable collection of eight essays on current editorial issues in Middle English... this stimulating book. * ANGLIA * The present collection is a particularly high-powered one, a volume covering the greatest possible range of relevant topics and discussed by leading experts in the field. * NOTES AND QUERIES * York conferences go from strength to strength. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-0-85991-321-8 (9780859913218)
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Middle English text production and modern textual criticism, Tim William Machan; Geoffrey Chaucer - textual transmission and editing, N.F. Blake; authorial revision in some late-medieval English texts, Derek Pearsall; the variable text, Anne Hudson; regression to the commonplace in some vernacular textual traditions, Nicholas Jacobs; George Kane's processes of revision, Charlotte Brewer; editing "The Scale of Perfection" - return to recension, S.S. Hussey; producing manuscripts and editions, Ralph Hanna III.
