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Book/Printed Material Text genetics in literary modernism and other essays

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Title

  • Text genetics in literary modernism and other essays

Summary

  • "This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature and music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors. Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the concerns of the community of critics and scholars. Gabler responds innovatively to the issues involved and often endeavours to re-think their urgencies by bringing together the orthodox tenets of different schools of textual criticism. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of scholarly editing in the digital age. Written in Gabler's fluent style, these rich and elegant compositions are essential reading for literary and textual critics, scholarly editors, readers of James Joyce, New Modernism specialists, and all those interested in textual scholarship and digital editing under the umbrella ofDigital Humanities."--Site web de l'éditeur.

Names

  • Gabler, Hans Walter, 1938- author.

Created / Published

  • Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2018]
  • ©2018

Contents

  • Foreword -- 1. The Rocky Road to Ulysses -- 2. 'He chronicled with patience': Early Joycean Progressions Between Non-Fiction and Fiction -- 3. James Joyce Interpreneur -- 4. Structures of Memory and Orientation: Steering a Course Through Wandering Rocks -- 5. Editing Text -- Editing Work -- 6. Theorizing the Digital Scholarly Edition -- 7. Thoughts on Scholarly Editing -- 8. Beyond Author-Centricity in Scholarly Editing -- 9. Sourcing and Editing Shakespeare: The Bibliographical Fallacy -- 10. The Draft Manuscript as Material Foundation for Genetic Editing and Genetic Criticism -- 11. A Tale of Two Texts: Or, How One Might Edit Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse -- 12. Auto-Palimpsests: Virginia Woolf's Late Drafting of Her Early Life -- 13. From Memory to Fiction: An Essay in Genetic Criticism -- 14. Johann Sebastian Bach's Two-Choir Passion -- 15. Argument into Design: Editions as a Sub-Species of the Printed Book -- 16. Cultural versus Editorial Canonising:The Cases of Shakespeare, of Joyce -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- List ofIllustrations -- Index.

Headings

  • -  Criticism, Textual
  • -  Transmission of texts

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on online resources; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website, viewed on March 26, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resources (402 pages) : color illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • P47

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019452730

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Gabler, Hans Walter, Author. Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays. [Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, ©, 2018] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452730/.

APA citation style:

Gabler, H. W. (2018) Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays. [Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452730/.

MLA citation style:

Gabler, Hans Walter, Author. Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays. [Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, ©, 2018] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452730/>.