Devils and angels : textual editing and literary theory
The aim of this volume is to bridge the gap between textual and literary critics. While most textual scholars now stress the importance of authorial intention and its key role in editorial and interpretative work, many literary theorists still tend to ban it from any literary discussion.
Print Book, English, 1991
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1991
Aufsatzsammlung
xviii, 212 pages ; 24 cm
9780813913155, 0813913152
22731533
Literary pragmatics and the editorial horizon / Jerome J. McGann
The autonomous author, the sociology of texts, and the polemics of textual criticsm / Peter Shillingsburg
Variety in editing and reading: a response to McGann and Shillingsburg / T.H. Howard-Hill
Textual product or textual process: procedures and assumptions of critical editing / Paul Eggert
The manifestation and accommodation of theory in textual editing / D.C. Greetham. Notes on emerging paradigms in editorial theory /Philip Cohen and David H. Jackson
The rhetorical politics of editing: a response to Eggert, Greetham, and Cohen and Jackson / Steven Mailloux
Issues of identity and utterance: an intentionalist response to "textual instablity" / James McLaverty
Unsought encounters / Hans Walter Gabler
The textual event / Joseph Grigely
Making texts new: a response to Gabler, McLaverty, and Grigely / William E. Cain