TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGann,Jerome J.
TI  - The Textual Condition
T2  - Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
SN  - 9780691217758
AV  - PR21 .M37 1991eb
U1  - 801/.959 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - American literature
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Editing
KW  - English literature
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Blake, William
KW  - Boni and Liveright
KW  - Bowers, Fredson
KW  - Coleridge, S. T
KW  - De Man, Paul
KW  - Dickens, Charles
KW  - Espey, John
KW  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Gabler, Hans
KW  - Hours Pres
KW  - Jones, Sir William
KW  - Kelmscott Press
KW  - Lachmann, Karl
KW  - Milford, H. S
KW  - Morris, William
KW  - New Directions
KW  - Ovid Press
KW  - Parker, Hershel
KW  - Pater, Walter
KW  - Pre-Raphaelitism
KW  - Rainey, Lawrence
KW  - Ray, Gordon N
KW  - Shakespeare, William
KW  - Shillingsburg, Peter
KW  - Swinburne, A. C
KW  - Tanselle, G. Thomas
KW  - Tillotson, Kathleen
KW  - Unger, Roberto
KW  - Varela, Francisco
KW  - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
KW  - Yeats, William Butler
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction: Texts and Textualities --; Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths --; 1. Theory, Literary Pragmatics, and the Editorial Horizon --; 2. What Is Critical Editing? --; 3. The Socialization of Texts --; 4. The Textual Condition --; Part Two: Ezra Pound in the Sixth Chamber --; 5. How to Read a Book --; 6. Pound's Cantos: A Poem Including Bibliography --; 7. Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies of literary works as they are generated over time by authors, editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats, Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality
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