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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AT A PANEL discussion during the 1989 meetings of the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) I was asked the following question: "If you were editing Byron's poetry now, what would you do?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radial reading, bibliographical codes, editorial horizon, poem containing history, critical editing, textual condition, editorial theory, literary pragmatics, decorated capitals, linguistic text, tenth printing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Ezra Pound, William Blake, Kelmscott Press, Reagan's Farewell, William Morris, Ovid Press, Pound's Cantos, The Waste Land, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fare Thee Well, Jane Morris, Station of the Metro, The Giaour, Hours Press, Mary's Girlhood, Modern Language Association, Pickwick Papers, The Champion, Three Mountains Press, William Michael Rossetti New!
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AT A PANEL discussion during the 1989 meetings of the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) I was asked the following question: "If you were editing Byron's poetry now, what would you do?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radial reading, bibliographical codes, editorial horizon, poem containing history, critical editing, textual condition, editorial theory, literary pragmatics, decorated capitals, linguistic text, tenth printing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Ezra Pound, William Blake, Kelmscott Press, Reagan's Farewell, William Morris, Ovid Press, Pound's Cantos, The Waste Land, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fare Thee Well, Jane Morris, Station of the Metro, The Giaour, Hours Press, Mary's Girlhood, Modern Language Association, Pickwick Papers, The Champion, Three Mountains Press, William Michael Rossetti New!
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- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound on 13 pages
- The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti on 5 pages
- How to Read by Ezra Pound on 4 pages
- The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot on page 125, page 126, and Back Matter
- Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray on page 79, page 80, and Back Matter
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- Texts and Textuality: Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Philip G. Cohen on 9 pages
- Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance by William B. Worthen on 5 pages
- Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars on 4 pages
- Textual Awareness: A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann (Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism) by Dirk Van Hulle on 4 pages
- Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 by Patricia Sieber on 4 pages
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