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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerome J McGann |
ISBN: | 0813914183 9780813914183 |
OCLC Number: | 25831872 |
Notes: | Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983. |
Description: | xxiv, 146 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Modern textual criticism : a schematic history -- Modern textual criticism : the central problems -- The ideology of final intentions -- A modern instance : editing Byron -- Final intentions and textual versions -- Final authorial intentions : exceptions and misconceptions -- The problem of literary authority -- Modernized editions and the theory of textual criticism -- Summary -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Jerome J. McGann. |
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Abstract:
Starting from a critical inquiry into specialised issues in editing, this work unfolds an argument for a general revaluation of the grounds of literary study as a whole. It argues that the theory of text must ground itself in a recovery of the entire productive/reproductive history of the text.
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