scholarly journals Paul Eggert, The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History

Variants ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 273-277
Author(s):  
Hans Walter Gabler
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Scholarly Editing

scholarly journals Take this Work Global

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cornelius (39–49)
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
General Program ◽  
Scholarly Editing

Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History elaborates a general program for the study of literature centered on the question, “What is the thing read?” Concepts of document, text, and work are parsed with care, generating many valuable insights and clarifications, but there is need for more thinking about the linguistic medium of literature. To textual studies, bibliography, and book history — the trio of foundational disciplines advocated by Eggert — one should add philology, or the study of literary language.

Medieval Manuscripts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Book History ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Manuscript Culture ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
British And Irish Literature ◽  
Textual Culture

Scholars studying medieval manuscripts work in a variety of disciplines, from literary atudies to history to linguistics to art history to classics. Publications in all these areas use manuscripts and offer important findings about medieval manuscripts. In addition to its practice within different fields, much of the study of medieval manuscripts is strongly interdisciplinary, using techniques native to the study of the medieval book like codicology and paleography, alongside text critical-methods originally developed in classics and refined there, in literary studies and in history, visual analysis pioneered in art history, and philological methods now found in literary studies and linguistics. Insofar as the study of medieval manuscripts has a unified goal, it is to describe and explain the production and use of manuscripts and the textual culture associated with them, generating primary data that assists in the writing of literary, cultural, and linguistic history. Given the breadth of the field, this Oxford Bibliographies entry must necessarily be selective. It focuses primarily on manuscripts of British and Irish literature in English (manuscripts of texts in Irish, Welsh, and other Celtic languages being specialist fields of study in their own right). As a consequence, the vast majority of the material listed is in English, though scholarship on medieval manuscripts is also published in French, Italian, and German, as well as other languages. After sections devoted to General Overviews, Reference Works, Textbooks, Anthologies, Bibliographies and Journals, the bibliography presents lists of Catalogues of Manuscripts and Facsimiles, which are two of the most important tools for medieval book historians. It finishes with lists of works relevant to the major subdisciplines of medieval book history, Codicology (the study of the physical structure of manuscripts); paleography, the study of Scripts used in those manuscripts; as well as studies of Scribal Practice and Manuscript Culture; and works concerned with Ownership and Provenance.

Religion and Representation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Rzepa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Book History ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This review is divided into three sections: 1. Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914; 2. Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy; 3. ‘Translation and Religion: Crafting Regimes of Identity’, a thematic issue of Religion edited by Hephzibah Israel and Matthias Frenz. Taken together, these works provide an overview of approaches that demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary research into religion and representation. Drawing on the disciplines of social, political, and cultural history, literary studies, book history, theology, religious studies, translation studies, and postcolonial studies, they highlight the importance of research that contextualizes the relationship between religion and representation, bringing attention to its historically overlooked aspects.

scholarly journals Seeing through the Concept of World Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Book History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Conceptual Thinking ◽  
Literary Geography

Abstract Less concerned with the concept of World Literature than with the promise and perils of conceptualization, this essay considers what experiencing some forms of writing as world literature might involve. Using J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country (1977) as an illustrative example, it addresses questions of circulation, translation, writing systems, book history, and literary geography in the context of recent academic debates about world literary studies. It concludes by revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s landmark 1907 essay “World Literature,” arguing that it remains an indispensable guide to experiential reading and anti-conceptual thinking.

scholarly journals Editing a Discourse, Not a Text: Meta-Methodological Remarks on an Editorial Endeavour

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Rockenberger
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Textual Scholarship ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Scholarly Editing ◽  
Death Of The Author

AbstractWhereas in literary studies poststructuralist theory (e. g. deconstruction, discourse analysis, broad concepts of intertextuality, ›Death of the Author‹-claims and several versions of anti-intentionalism) has had – and still has – a massive impact on practices ofHowever, within my contribution I will outline an entirely different approach by asking the question: If we actually decided to give up on author-centricity in scholarly editing and radically rejected authors’ intentions as well as authors’ single or collected works as objects of textual scholarship, could the yet unrealized project of ›editing a discourse‹ or ›discourse edition‹ work as a complement, an extension, or a replacement of traditional editions?To make this clear: So far there is no such thing as a discourse edition, so I cannot give aOne of the underlying ideas of this article is to confront contemporary edition philology (textual scholarship) – which is oriented towards categories like author, work, or text – with a ›foil‹ for contrast specifically invented for the purpose to show quite plainly that those leading categories scholarly editorial work is based on are anything but self-evident and without any alternatives but in the end rather contingent (namely uponI designed a meta-philological thought experiment to exemplify exactly this and I will thereby reveal a discipline-specific methodological ›blindness‹, irritate seemingly unproblematic habitual ways of thinking and thus uncover a deficit of reasoning and self-reflection in the field. Basically, I will clarify some implicit (categorial and methodological) presuppositions of scholarly editing and thereby uncover some aspects of the (invisible) normative framework underlying editorial practices.Firstly, I will clarifySecondly, I will askWhen I will have shown that a discourse edition can actually beFinally, I will briefly consider the question of

Institutional Forme

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-259
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Todd Knight
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Book History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Aesthetic Sense ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores prospects for a reenergized history of the book amid the recent turn to a capacious formalism in literary studies that encompasses the sociopolitical reverberations of “form” in the traditional, aesthetic sense. The chapter argues that a key opening for book historians is the new formalists’ emphasis on the organizing power of institutions, something that book history implicitly engages in the course of its work but that literary criticism too often ignores or treats with hostility. Rereading D. F. McKenzie’s paradigm-setting proposals for a research program in the history of the book and using as a case-study that most literary of institutions, the library, I advocate a turn away from the field’s particularist mantra, “forms effect meaning,” toward McKenzie’s forgotten parallel claim that a sociology of texts “alerts us to the roles of institutions, and their own complex structures, in affecting the forms of social discourse, past and present.”

The Unfinished Book

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Book History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Cultural Imagination ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Art Object ◽  
Book Collections ◽  
The Many

This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or conceptual resource. The Unfinished Book identifies instead the many ways in which study of books—of their compounding of matter and meaning, their global travels and historical transitions, their shaping of and by new media technologies—remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship generally and literary studies in particular.  Contributors investigate the book’s continuing resilience as a platform for delivering information and entertainment, while they address the question—why isn’t the book history? Assessing a wide variety of particular books, book-like objects, and book collections and working through two millennia of wildly variable and conflicting definitions of the book and its purposes, The Unfinished Book surveys the many things that books have been and suggests some reasons why the book’s grip on the cultural imagination remains so tenacious.

scholarly journals A Wandering Hyphen, The Reader and the Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Eggert (65–84)
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Regulative Idea ◽  
Negative Dialectic ◽  
Scholarly Editing ◽  
Role Of The Reader ◽  
The Relationship

This is a reply to commentary by Matt Cohen, Ian Cornelius, and Alan Galey occasioned by the publication of Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and to a review of the book by John K. Young. A theory of the work based on the negative dialectic of document and text grounds the work as a regulative idea rather than an ideal entity and finds the role of the reader to be constitutive of it. The relationship (envisaged in the book as a slider) of archival and editorial digital projects, the potential cross-fertilization of philology and textual criticism, and an expanded role for textual studies inspired by D. F. McKenzie’s writings are discussed.

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