The Book as Artefact
Text and Border
Published on 1. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-90-420-1888-4 (ISBN)
Description
Books do not just contain texts: books themselves are cultural artefacts, which convey many meanings in their own right, meanings which interact with the texts they contain. Awareness of the many significances of books as cultural and textual objects reshapes the traditional disciplines of textual theory, analytic bibliography, codicology and palaeography, while the advent of electronic books, and digital methods for representing print books, is introducing a new dimension to our understanding. Seven essays in this volume, ranging over medieval Portuguese and Swedish manuscripts, eighteenth-century Icelandic editions, Australian playtexts, Thackeray and Anita Brookner, and Stefan George, consider these questions from the broad perspective of textual scholarship.
Texts may exist on the borderland of word and not-word; or they may spring from borderlands of nation or culture; or they may be considered from the margins of neighbouring disciplines. So readers must set the texts within contexts, to see the play of text against border. Essays in this volume explore different texts against varying backgrounds - Pound's Cantos, Joyce's Ulysses, Trollope's An Eye for an Eye, Woolf's The Waves - while essays by McGann and Lernout argue the dimensionality of text on the intersection of print and digital media.
Implicit in all these essays is the contention, that textual scholarship must influence literary interpretation. Two final essays focus directly on this, in the cases of Melville's Moby-Dick and Emily Dickinson's late fragments. An extensive reviews section completes this volume.
Texts may exist on the borderland of word and not-word; or they may spring from borderlands of nation or culture; or they may be considered from the margins of neighbouring disciplines. So readers must set the texts within contexts, to see the play of text against border. Essays in this volume explore different texts against varying backgrounds - Pound's Cantos, Joyce's Ulysses, Trollope's An Eye for an Eye, Woolf's The Waves - while essays by McGann and Lernout argue the dimensionality of text on the intersection of print and digital media.
Implicit in all these essays is the contention, that textual scholarship must influence literary interpretation. Two final essays focus directly on this, in the cases of Melville's Moby-Dick and Emily Dickinson's late fragments. An extensive reviews section completes this volume.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
548 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1888-4 (9789042018884)
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The Book as Artefact
Edited by Anne Mette Hansen
Paul EGGERT: Version - Agency - Intention: The Cross-fertilising of German and Anglo-American Editorial Traditions
Peter L. SHILLINGSBURG: Practical Editions of Literary Texts
Ragnhei?ur MOSESDOTTIR: "Good white paper, with a new, clear and elegant typeface": Early Arnamagnaean Editions
Eva Nilsson NYLANDER: To the Glory of Mary: Liber Scole Virginis at Lund University Library
Joao DIONISIO: Tables of Contents in Portuguese Late Medieval Manuscripts
Ruediger NUTT-KOFOTH: The Book in the Poetological Concept of Stefan George: Some Remarks on the Physical and Iconic Side of the Published Text - with an Editorial Conclusion
Dirk VAN HULLE: The Limited Edition Unlimited: Samuel Beckett's Fugal Artefact
Text and Border: The Borders of the Text
Edited by Roger Luedeke, Wolfgang Streit and Cristina Urchueguia
George BORNSTEIN: The Book as Artefact: Historicizing Ezra Pound's First Thirty Cantos
Julia BRIGGS: Writing by Numbers: An Aspect of Woolf 's Revisionary Practice
Michael GRODEN: Proceeding Energetically From the Unknown to the Known: Looking Again at the Genetic Texts and Documents for Joyce's Ulysses
Geert LERNOUT: The Dimension of the Text
John MCCOURT: Writing on the Edge: Trollope's An Eye for An Eye
Jerome MCGANN: From Text to Work: Digital Tools and the Emergence of the Social Text
Fritz SENN: The Potency of Error (exempli?ed in Joyce's Ulysses)
The Interpretive Consequences of Textual Criticism
Edited by Peter Shillingsburg
John BRYANT: Versions of Moby-Dick: Plagiarism, Censorship, and Some Notes toward an Ethics of the Fluid Text
Marta L. WERNER: Emily Dickinson's Futures: "Unquali?ed - to Scan"
Reviews and Book Notices
Notes on Contributors
Edited by Anne Mette Hansen
Paul EGGERT: Version - Agency - Intention: The Cross-fertilising of German and Anglo-American Editorial Traditions
Peter L. SHILLINGSBURG: Practical Editions of Literary Texts
Ragnhei?ur MOSESDOTTIR: "Good white paper, with a new, clear and elegant typeface": Early Arnamagnaean Editions
Eva Nilsson NYLANDER: To the Glory of Mary: Liber Scole Virginis at Lund University Library
Joao DIONISIO: Tables of Contents in Portuguese Late Medieval Manuscripts
Ruediger NUTT-KOFOTH: The Book in the Poetological Concept of Stefan George: Some Remarks on the Physical and Iconic Side of the Published Text - with an Editorial Conclusion
Dirk VAN HULLE: The Limited Edition Unlimited: Samuel Beckett's Fugal Artefact
Text and Border: The Borders of the Text
Edited by Roger Luedeke, Wolfgang Streit and Cristina Urchueguia
George BORNSTEIN: The Book as Artefact: Historicizing Ezra Pound's First Thirty Cantos
Julia BRIGGS: Writing by Numbers: An Aspect of Woolf 's Revisionary Practice
Michael GRODEN: Proceeding Energetically From the Unknown to the Known: Looking Again at the Genetic Texts and Documents for Joyce's Ulysses
Geert LERNOUT: The Dimension of the Text
John MCCOURT: Writing on the Edge: Trollope's An Eye for An Eye
Jerome MCGANN: From Text to Work: Digital Tools and the Emergence of the Social Text
Fritz SENN: The Potency of Error (exempli?ed in Joyce's Ulysses)
The Interpretive Consequences of Textual Criticism
Edited by Peter Shillingsburg
John BRYANT: Versions of Moby-Dick: Plagiarism, Censorship, and Some Notes toward an Ethics of the Fluid Text
Marta L. WERNER: Emily Dickinson's Futures: "Unquali?ed - to Scan"
Reviews and Book Notices
Notes on Contributors