Art and Error: Modern Textual Editing

1971 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 843
Author(s):  
J. C. Maxwell ◽  
Ronald Gottesman ◽  
Scott Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Textual Editing

Barnard, Lou, Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe, and John Unsworth, eds.Electronic Textual Editing

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-136
Author(s):  
David Greetham
Keyword(s):  
Textual Editing

Critical philology and Dante’s Commedia: A couple of thoughts and a few examples

2021 ◽  
pp. 001458582110225
Author(s):  
Paolo Trovato
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Torquato Tasso ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Textual Editing ◽  
Textual Transmission ◽  
Pietro Aretino

Not only literary students, but also well-known scholars share the idea that the reconstruction of a text is a routine job which leaves little room for creativity. After some 40 years during which I have edited or prepared the edition of works of Machiavelli ( Discorso intorno alla nostra lingua), Pietro Aretino ( Cortegiana) and Torquato Tasso ( Aminta), and 17 years devoted to the textual transmission and the text of Dante’s  Commedia, I think that, except for the first phases of the job, textual editing requires almost constant critical thought and interpretation. I shall present a little series of examples, mostly from Dante’s Commedia, with cases ranging from decisions in the realm of accidentals to rather complicated choices among competing substantial readings and to the risky enterprise of emendation against all the witnesses of the work. While these examples can give an idea of the novelty of some solutions of my forthcoming edition (the introduction and  Inferno will appear in the summer of 2021), in my view, they seem to confirm the opinion of the great classical philologist Giorgio Pasquali, for whom textual criticism isn’t mechanical; it is methodical.

Fighting with Canon

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-272
Author(s):  
Kelsey Jackson Williams
Keyword(s):  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Textual Editing ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Pierre Bayle

The Early Enlightenment was, in many ways, a time of reckoning and wrestling with Scotland’s humanist past and this was no different for those Scots attempting to build, rebuild, or deconstruct their nation’s literary heritage. This chapter explores a series of canon-building efforts during this period, all growing out of the much older dispute between Scottish and Irish scholars over their shared Gaelic heritage, but all also partaking of new, Enlightened forms of literary scholarship and textual editing to create a distinctive canon of Scottish writers. Key figures discussed include Robert Freebairn, Thomas Ruddiman, Robert Sibbald, and Pierre Bayle.

Devils and Angels: Textual Editing and Literary Theory. Philip Cohen

1994 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-545
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Textual Editing

scholarly journals Editing Experiment: The New Modernist Editing and Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-131
Author(s):  
Adam Guy ◽  
Scott McCracken
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Writing ◽  
Dorothy Richardson ◽  
Constructive Methods ◽  
Textual Editing ◽  
Editorial Practice

This article examines the challenges experimental writing poses for textual editing, drawing on the experience of the Dorothy Richardson Editions Project, which was inaugurated in 2007 with the aim of producing new scholarly editions of Richardson's fiction and letters. Here we focus on Richardson's thirteen-volume novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–67) and the particular problems its constantly unfolding experimental aesthetic present for both the critic and the scholarly editor. We adopt Adorno's concept of ‘constructive methods’ to describe Richardson's project, the composition of a narrative without a predictable endpoint, asking what kind of editorial practice best captures her unconventional and deliberately inconsistent approach to writing. We conclude by discussing the implications that editing Pilgrimage might have for a broader understanding of modernist aesthetics.

scholarly journals “I knew him, Horatio”: Shakespeare’s Beliefs, Early Textual Editing, and Nineteenth-Century Phrenology

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Adams Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Textual Editing ◽  
National Debate

As Hamlet gazes into Yorick’s skull, he reassembles the quirks of the jester’s personhood and also imagines a self that he used to be, in relation to Yorick. Partially through the lens of Hamlet, characterized by A.C. Bradley as Shakespeare’s most “religious” play, this essay interrogates how several eighteenth-century textual editors, and some nineteenth-century scholars and popular admirers, imagine and construct Shakespeare’s beliefs: the first, through their efforts to reassemble the textual “bones” of Shakespeare’s works; and the second, through the rising pseudoscience of phrenology, operating in the background in the national debate to exhume and examine Shakespeare’s skull.

Politics, Patronage and Medieval Scholarship: Henry Savile’s Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam (1596) in Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-115
Author(s):  
Thomas Roebuck
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Textual Editing

Abstract Henry Savile’s Rerum Anglicarum scriptores (1596), his collection of writings of medieval historians, was essential reading for Britain’s antiquaries for generations. However, it has not generally figured largely in histories of British antiquarianism and its publication has seemed a puzzling episode in Savile’s scholarly career. This article draws on newly-discovered or redated print and manuscript evidence to illuminate the nexus of politics and patronage from which the book emerged. Exploring Savile’s place within British antiquarianism, his practice as an editor of medieval manuscripts, and the volume’s publication in Frankfurt, the essay argues that Savile’s Scriptores constitutes a significant departure from earlier sixteenth-century traditions of medieval textual editing.

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