| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) : facsimiles |
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Studies in book and print culture |
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Studies in book and print culture.
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| Contents |
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Myth of Print Culture -- 1.1 Print and Scribal Culture (Eisenstein, Johns, Love) -- 1.2 The Coming of the Book and the Departure of Bibliographical Inquiry -- 2 Twenty Million Incunables Can't Be Wrong -- 2.1 The Calculus of Book-Copies -- 2.2 The Quantification of Evidence -- 2.3 Note on the Relative Popularity of Juvenal and Persius -- 3 What Is a Book? Classification and Representation of Early Books -- 3.1 The Cataloguing of Early Book Fragments -- 3.2 Type Measurement and Facsimile Representation |
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4 The Notion of Variant and the Zen of Collation4.1 Charlton Hinman and the Optical Collator -- 4.2 The Logic and Description of Press Variation -- 5 Two Studies in Chaucer Editing -- 5.1 The Presumed Influence of Skeat's Student's Chaucer on Manly and Rickert's Text of the Canterbury Tales -- 5.2 The Electronic Chaucer and the Relation of the Two Caxton Editions -- 6 Editorial Variants -- 6.1 Early Terence Editions and the Material Transmission of the Text -- 6.2 Richard Bentley: Milton and Terence -- 6.3 Malone Verbatim: The Description of Editorial Procedures |
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6.4 W.W. Skeat, Chatterton's Rowley, and the Definition of the True Poem7 Bibliographical Myths and Methods -- 7.1 The Curse of the Mummy Paper -- 7.2 The History of Irony as a Problem in Descriptive Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Principal Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z |
| Summary |
The Myth of Print Culture is a critique of bibliographical and editorial method, focusing on the disparity between levels of material evidence (unique and singular) and levels of text (abstract and reproducible). It demonstrates how the particulars of evidence are manipulated in standard scholarly arguments by the higher levels of textuality they are intended to support. The individual studies in the book focus on a range of problems: basic definitions of what a book is; statistical assumptions; and editorial methods used to define and collate the presumably basic unit of 'variant.' This work differs from other recent studies in print culture in its emphasis on fifteenth-century books and its insistence that the problems encountered in that historical milieu (problems as basic as cataloguing errors) are the same as problems encountered in other areas of literary criticism. The difficulties in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial, and literary history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Books -- History.
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Bibliography -- Methodology.
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Criticism, Textual.
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Books and reading -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Books and reading
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Bibliography -- Methodology
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Books
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Criticism, Textual
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Boekdrukkunst.
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Bibliografie.
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Tekstkritiek.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442681798 |
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1442681799 |
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1281994456 |
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9781281994455 |
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