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The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies - Paul Eggert

The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies

Scholarly Editing and Book History

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Buch | Softcover
252 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-72449-4 (ISBN)
CHF 54,10 inkl. MwSt
Paul Eggert remaps the concept of literary critique, providing new justification for close reading and bringing scholarly editions and book history into the centre of literary studies. This book will appeal to students, researchers and editors interested in textual editing, book history, literary theory and the history of reading.
By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the work has broadened the concept, extending it historically and sweeping away its once-supposed aesthetic objecthood. Concurrently, the advent of digital scholarly editions is recasting the editorial endeavour. The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies tests its argument against a range of book-historically inflected case-studies from Hamlet editions to Romantic poetry archives to the writing practices of Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence. It newly justifies the practice of close reading in the digital age.

Paul Eggert is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University, Chicago and the University of New South Wales. He previously held the Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies at Loyola University. He has edited critical editions of works by D. H. Lawrence, Henry Kingsley, Rolf Boldrewood, Henry Lawson and Joseph Conrad, and is the author of Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature (Cambridge, 2009), which won the Society for Textual Scholarship's Finneran Award as the best book of editorial theory for 2009–10.

Preface; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: the book, the work and the scholarly edition; 2. Reviving the work-concept: music, literature and historic buildings; 3. The digital native encounters the printed scholarly edition called Hamlet; 4. The reader-oriented scholarly edition; 5. Digital editions: the archival impulse and the editorial impulse; 6. The work, the version and the Charles Harpur Critical Archive; 7. Book history and literary study: the late nineteenth century and Rolf Boldrewood; 8. Book history and literary study: Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence; 9. Adaptation, folklore and the work: the Ned Kelly story; 10. Conclusion: what editors edit, and the role of the reader; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 229 mm
Gewicht 380 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10 1-108-72449-3 / 1108724493
ISBN-13 978-1-108-72449-4 / 9781108724494
Zustand Neuware
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