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1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations (black and white), music, facsimiles |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer, Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be they papyri, manuscripts or printed editions. Notions of textual authority have varied considerably across the ages under the influence of different (and differently motivated) agents, such as scribes, annotators, editors, correctors, grammarians, printers and publishers, over and above the authors themselves. The need for preserving the written legacy of peoples and nations as faithfully as possible has always been counterbalanced by a duty to ensure its accessibility to successive generations at different times and in different cultural contexts. The ten chapters collected in this volume offer critical approaches to such authors and texts as Homer, the Bible, The Thousand and One Nights, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Eliot, but also Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts uniquely combining word and image, as well as Beethoven's 'Tempest' sonata (Op. 31, No. 2) as seen from the angle of music as text. Together the contributors argue that an awareness of what the 'life of texts' entails is essential for a critical understanding of the transmission of culture."-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Introduction: conceiving the life of texts / Richard Gameson -- Editing Homer / Barbara Graziosi -- The canon and the codex: on the material form of the Christian Bible / Francis Watson -- Wandering nights: Shahrazād's mutations / Daniel L. Newman -- A text in exile: Dante's divine comedy / Annalisa Cipollone -- Textual metamorphosis: the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci / Carlo Vecce -- Montaigne: the life and after-life of an unfinished text / John O'Brien -- Rescuing Shakespeare: King Lear in its textual contexts / David Fuller -- Textual evidence and musical analysis: once more on the first movement of Beethoven's Tempest Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 / Julian Horton -- Fragments shored against ruin: reassembling the waste land / Jason Harding -- Notes -- Index of subjects and themes -- Index of manuscripts and annotated printed copies -- Index of names. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Transmission of texts.
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Transmission of texts. |
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Manuscripts -- Reproduction.
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Manuscripts -- Reproduction. |
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Manuscripts -- Editing.
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Manuscripts -- Editing. |
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Shakespeare studies & criticism. |
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval. |
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Caruso, Carlo, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: LIFE OF TEXTS. [Place of publication not identified] : BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2018 1350039055 (OCoLC)1027836252 |
| ISBN |
9781350039063 (electronic book) |
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1350039063 (electronic book) |
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9781350039070 (electronic book) |
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1350039071 (electronic book) |
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9781350039056 (hardcover) |
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1350039055 (hardcover) |
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