Ponowne doświadczanie kompozycji. Rozważania nad naukową edycją cyfrową z „Melville Electronic Library”

Abstract

This essay returns to some fundamental notions in computing history to argue for a creative and dynamic form of scholarly editing in the digital space as a form of creative-critical practice. Constituted as a complementary method to the tradition of critical editing, which attempts to provide the most correct description and single representation of the text, the editor attuned to creative-critical methods seeks to brings readers of the edition closer to the energies of writing – composition, revision, text-making, and the context of texts and their relational contexts. These ideas are demonstrated by three examples from the Melville Electronic Library’s work on Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, Sailor, and the forthcoming digital edition of Hawthorne and His Mosses.