Textual Scholarship

Author, Editor, Engineer — Code & the Rewriting of Authorship in Scholarly Editing

“…Scholarly editing concerns itself with establishing, curating, and studying the record and archive of historic textsin practice most often the legacy in some form of dead authors. If we follow Greetham (1994) on this the work of a scholarly editor entails at least the following activities: finding a text, reproducing the text (which involves reading, evaluating, and transcribing the text of the original document or documents), criticizing the text, and editing the text. This process then results in a new representation of the text of the originating document(s).…”

“…One response was to fully embrace the ideas of the reader as the site of production of interpretation. In Greetham 1994, David Greetham's rejoinder to the poststructuralist challenge was still to state that although such schools have perhaps effectively described the textual phenomena, they 'have not yet produced a critical vehicle for representing them in a scholarly edition' (Greetham 1994). At that very time though, the Internet had solidly established itself as the world's newest, fastest growing, and most intrinsically networked site of knowledge.…”

“…The appropriation of a scholarly edition is also a claim to qualification and adequacy as to the work of editing the text. Not just anybody has the necessary skill and qualifications to edit a text properly and in a scholarly manner, as Greetham (1994) and others (e.g. Shillingsburg 2006;Murphy 2008) argue.…”

Lone pronoun tags in Early Modern English: ProTag constructions in the dramas of Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare

“… 9 For a full outline of the concerns and processes of textual criticism, see Greetham (1994: 295–347).…”

Twenty years of "Imprenta y Crítica textual en el Siglo de Oro"

“…14 Desde entonces la disciplina se fue extendiendo por toda Europa y América. Entre los numerosos manuales y colecciones de artículos que ha producido en los últimos decenios quizá se podrían destacar los de Williams y Abbott (1985), Stopelli (1987), Fahy (1988), Tanselle (1989Tanselle ( , 1990Tanselle ( , 1998Tanselle ( , 2009, 2013 y 2020), Trovato (1991Trovato ( y 1998, Greetham (1992Greetham ( , 1995Greetham ( , 1998Greetham ( y 1999, Sorella (1998), Hellinga (2006Hellinga ( y 2014 y Jones (2015). Otros trabajos más específicos, sobre obras y problemas concretos, pueden consultarse en varias revistas que difunden este tipo de estudios y permiten, en su mayoría, su lectura on line.…”