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Textuality and knowledge : essays
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Title
Textuality and knowledge : essays / Peter L. Shillingsburg.
ISBN
9780271078502
0271078502
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Physical Description
xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"A 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"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2017
Series
The Penn State series in the history of the book
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The evidence for literary knowledge
Textual criticism, the humanities, and J.M. Coetzee
The semiotics of bibliography
Some functions of textual criticism
Responsibility for textual changes in long-distance revisions
Text as communication
Revisiting authorial intentions
How literary works exist
Convenient scholarly editions
Scholarly editing as a cultural enterprise
Work and text in nonliterary text-based disciplines
Publishers' records and the history of book production
Cultural heritage, textuality, and social justice.
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