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Peter Robinson's
Textual Criticism

 

 

Questions this class will canvas include (among others!)...

1. Why does scholarly editing matter?
2. What is a scholarly edition?
3. What are the aims of scholarly editing?
4. How are the models of scholarly editing changing?
5. Why are they changing?
6. Some kinds of scholarly edition:
• Print editions
• Single-text v. Eclectic
• 'Deep-edited' v. 'stemmatic' v 'best-text'
• Electronic archive v. Electronic critical
• 'Open' v 'Closed'
7. Two instances of electronic scholarly edition: Hengwrt Chaucer; Miller's Tale on CD-ROM
8. Techniques for making scholarly editions: transcription; collation; analysis
9. Do you really want to spend your life doing this? Alternative strategies.

 

Some internet links:

The British Library Caxtons

The Digital Greek New Testament at Münster

The Blake Archive (or is it an edition?)

The Rossetti Archive (ditto!)

ITSEE, University of Birmingham, for where it is all happening.

 

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The Quadrivium Project is hosted by the University of Glasgow, funded by the AHRC