
The Life of Texts
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The ten chapters collected in this volume offer critical approaches to such authors and texts as Homer, the Bible, The Thousand and One Nights, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Eliot, but also Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts uniquely combining word and image, as well as Beethoven's 'Tempest' sonata (Op. 31, No. 2) as seen from the angle of music as text. Together the contributors argue that an awareness of what the 'life of texts' entails is essential for a critical understanding of the transmission of culture.
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Foreword
List of contributors
1. Conceiving the Life of Texts · Richard Gameson (Durham University, UK)
2. Editing Homer · Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University, USA)
3. The Canon and the Codex: On the Material Form of the Christian Bible · Francis Watson (Durham University, UK)
4. Wandering Nights: Shahrazad's Mutations · Daniel Newman (Durham University, UK)
5. A Text in Exile: Dante's Divine Comedy · Annalisa Cipollone (Durham University, UK)
6. Textual Metamorphosis: The Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci · Carlo Vecce (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy)
7. Montaigne: The Life and After Life of an Unfinished Text · John O'Brien (Durham University, UK)
8. Rescuing Shakespeare: King Lear and Its Textual Contexts · David Fuller (Durham University, UK)
9. Textual Evidence and Musical Analysis: Once More on the First Movement of Beethoven's 'Tempest' Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 · Julian Horton (Durham University, UK)
10. Fragments Shored against Ruin: Reassembling The Waste Land · Jason Harding (Durham University, UK)
Index of principal passages cited
General index
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