Variants And Variance In Classical Textual Cultures
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Author |
: Glenn W. Most |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2024-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111054568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 311105456X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures by : Glenn W. Most
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need to have access to the texts that are important for cultural institutions, this is particularly true for authoritative texts. But the reproduction of texts by traditional means – either orally or by hand – inevitably produces variations. These variations can arise because of inattention, confusion, misunderstanding, deliberate modification, physical damage, and many other factors. In general, the more a text is reproduced, the more variations are likely to occur. But although the fact of textual variation in general is doubtless an anthropological universal, the specific forms it takes and the specific attitudes to its occurrence seem to vary widely from culture to culture. How variations develop in different cultures, on the basis of which forms of scholarly practices, collaborations, and institutional frameworks; what variants say about a culture’s understandings of text, authorship, and collective authorship; what happens when variants become creative and generate their own strands of tradition; to what degree changes in transmission media and processes of distribution, translations, or the migration of texts into different cultural or institutional contexts can influence or be influenced by the development of variants – these are the questions that this book addresses in a historical and culturally comparative perspective.
Author |
: Glenn W. Most |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 2024-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111054360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111054365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures by : Glenn W. Most
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need to have access to the texts that are important for cultural institutions, this is particularly true for authoritative texts. But the reproduction of texts by traditional means - either orally or by hand - inevitably produces variations. These variations can arise because of inattention, confusion, misunderstanding, deliberate modification, physical damage, and many other factors. In general, the more a text is reproduced, the more variations are likely to occur. But although the fact of textual variation in general is doubtless an anthropological universal, the specific forms it takes and the specific attitudes to its occurrence seem to vary widely from culture to culture. How variations develop in different cultures, on the basis of which forms of scholarly practices, collaborations, and institutional frameworks; what variants say about a culture's understandings of text, authorship, and collective authorship; what happens when variants become creative and generate their own strands of tradition; to what degree changes in transmission media and processes of distribution, translations, or the migration of texts into different cultural or institutional contexts can influence or be influenced by the development of variants - these are the questions that this book addresses in a historical and culturally comparative perspective.
Author |
: Adele Cipolla |
Publisher |
: libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788862929820 |
ISBN-13 |
: 886292982X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital philology: new thoughts on old questions by : Adele Cipolla
Author |
: Daniel Allington |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 567 |
Release |
: 2019-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780470654934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0470654937 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book in Britain by : Daniel Allington
Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities of printing and publishing and discusses the formal elements of books and manuscripts, which are necessary to facilitate an understanding of that impact. This collaboratively authored narrative history combines the knowledge and expertise of five scholars who seek to answer questions such as: How does the material form of a text affect its meaning? How do books shape political and religious movements? How have the economics of the book trade and copyright shaped the literary canon? Who has been included in and excluded from the world of books, and why? The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction will appeal to all scholars, students, and historians interested in the written word and its continued production and presentation.
Author |
: Liv Ingeborg Lied |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2017-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110348057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110348055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Snapshots of Evolving Traditions by : Liv Ingeborg Lied
An die Seite des Corpus der Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller (GCS) stellte Adolf von Harnack die Monographienreihe der Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (TU), die er bereits 1882 begründet hatte und die nunmehr als »Archiv für die ... Ausgabe der älteren christlichen Schriftsteller« diente. In ihr werden vor allem die alten Übersetzungen der im Corpus erscheinenden Schriften teils im Original, teils in deutscher oder einer anderen modernen Sprache gedruckt. Daneben steht die Reihe auch für Voruntersuchungen zu den Editionen und für begleitende Abhandlungen offen.
Author |
: Joseph A. Dane |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2011-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812203639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812203631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of Sorts by : Joseph A. Dane
The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful attention to detail, Joseph A. Dane argues, we would find something else entirely: that a careful consideration of typography serves not as a material support to prevailing theories of print but, rather, as a recalcitrant counter-voice to them. In Out of Sorts Dane continues his examination of the ways in which the grand narratives of book history mask what we might actually learn by looking at books themselves. He considers the differences between internal and external evidence for the nature of the type used by Gutenberg and the curious disconnection between the two, and he explores how descriptions of typesetting devices from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been projected back onto the fifteenth to make the earlier period not more accessible but less. In subsequent chapters, he considers topics that include the modern mythologies of so-called gothic typefaces, the presence of nontypographical elements in typographical form, and the assumptions that underlie the electronic editions of a medieval poem or the visual representation of typographical history in nineteenth-century studies of the subject. Is Dane one of the most original or most traditional of historians of print? In Out of Sorts he demonstrates that it may well be possible to be both things at once.
Author |
: Florian Sobieroj |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2016-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110460001 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110460009 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Variance in Arabic Manuscripts by : Florian Sobieroj
In Arabic and Islamic studies, the subject of variance in general and that of textual variation in particular has not been investigated exhaustively so far. In the present book the variation in texts of the “closed transmission” will be studied, focusing on a small corpus of didactic and model poems, with a view to establishing what degree of text stability and change was allowed by the medium manuscript. Categories of variance (relating to work-titles, text, number of verses and their sequence, page-layout, context) and the means of controlling them in the manuscripts of the poems are identified and detailed descriptions of the copies are given. The monograph also includes a presentation of some major traits of the cultural background to the study of Arabic didactic poetry and of its dissemination in which memorization has played a crucial role. The intended readers,editors and other users of manuscripts, are helped to acquaint themselves with the methods employed in the manuscripts to control variation and they are given an overview of the large spectrum of Arabic didactic poetry and of its place in the traditional culture of learning in Islamicate societies.
Author |
: George Thomas Tanselle |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106016904069 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to Scholarly Editing by : George Thomas Tanselle
Author |
: Paul Zumthor |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 536 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816618453 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816618453 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward a Medieval Poetics by : Paul Zumthor
A translation of the 1972 French analysis of the dynamics of textual production in the Middle Ages that marked a major shift in scholarly discourse about medieval literature. Integrating the tools of linguistics and textual criticism, does not come to conclusions, but proposes approaches and methods for investigation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: T. Jackie Cuevas |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2018-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813594569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813594561 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Post-Borderlandia by : T. Jackie Cuevas
Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification. Expanding on Gloria Anzaldúa’s classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the “borderlands,” Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a “post-borderlands” subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition.