The myth of print culture : essays on evidence, textuality and bibliographical method

The myth of print culture : essays on evidence, textuality and bibliographical method /

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 a...

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Main Author: Dane, Joseph A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Series:Studies in book and print culture.
Subjects:
Books > History.
Bibliography > Methodology.
Criticism, Textual.
Books and reading > History.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Books and reading
Bibliography > Methodology
Books
Criticism, Textual
Boekdrukkunst.
Bibliografie.
Tekstkritiek.
Electronic books.
History
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Table of 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
  • 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
  • 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
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