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A Rationale of Textual Criticism / G. Thomas Tanselle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (104 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812214093
  • 9780812200423
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801/.959 19
LOC classification:
  • PN81 .T318 1989
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. The Nature of Texts -- 2. Reproducing the Texts of Documents -- 3. Reconstructing the Texts of Works -- Postscript -- INDEX
Summary: Textual criticism-the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text-is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to analyze. G. Thomas Tanselle argues, on the contrary, that the two activities cannot be separated.The textual critic, in choosing among textual variants and correcting what appear to be textual errors, inevitably exercises critical judgment and reflects a particular point of view toward the nature of literature. And the literary critic, in interpreting the meaning of a work or passage, needs to be (though rarely is) critical of the makeup of every text of it, including those produced by scholarly editors.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. The Nature of Texts -- 2. Reproducing the Texts of Documents -- 3. Reconstructing the Texts of Works -- Postscript -- INDEX

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Textual criticism-the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text-is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to analyze. G. Thomas Tanselle argues, on the contrary, that the two activities cannot be separated.The textual critic, in choosing among textual variants and correcting what appear to be textual errors, inevitably exercises critical judgment and reflects a particular point of view toward the nature of literature. And the literary critic, in interpreting the meaning of a work or passage, needs to be (though rarely is) critical of the makeup of every text of it, including those produced by scholarly editors.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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