| | 48 | Author: | | Add | | | Title: | Studies in Bibliography, Volume 48 (1995)  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | | Studies in Bibliography | | | | Description: | Most of this volume consists of essays designed to honor J. D.
Fleeman on the completion of his life's principal endeavour,
a comprehensive bibliography of Samuel Johnson. Galvanized
by two of David's ardent admirers, Professor Daisuke
Nagashima and Professor Howard D. Weinbrot, we as co-editors
found ourselves casting a net from—if not China to
Peru—then Oxford to Otago. That the field of potential
contributors proved so diverse and so distinguished is one
measure of David's achievement. Throughout his career, he
devoted himself selflessly to the work of others; indeed,
several of the articles included in this volume bear his
direct imprint. All exemplify one of his most cherished
ideals—that of scholarly community. For David, no
pains were excessive when it came to teaching, learning, and
collaborating. As a consequence, the epigraph to this
collection might well be taken (with the change of a single
pronoun) from King Alfred's preface to his version of
Gregory's Cura Pastoralis: "Her mon
maeg giet gesion hiora swaeth." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 56 | Author: | unknown | Add | | | Title: | Studies in bibliography, Volume 56 (2003-2004) | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | Studies in Bibliography | | | | Description: | At the opening panel of the 2001 conference of the Society for
Textual Scholarship, some interesting remarks about copy-text
were delivered by John Unsworth, a member of the Modern
Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions
(CSE). Unsworth said that he had originally planned to tell his audience
that "the Greg-Bowers theory of editing" or "copy-text theory" had
once enjoyed "hegemony within the CSE," but no longer did, owing to
challenges from outside the Greg-Bowers school, where the focus was on
other "periods, languages, and editorial circumstances." Unsworth submitted
this thesis to Robert H. Hirst, the chair of the CSE at the time,
for his thoughts, and reported receiving the following reply: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 57 | Author: | Edited by DAVID L. VANDER MEULEN | Add | | | Title: | Studies in Bibliography, Volume 57 (2005-2006) | | | | Published: | 2014 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | Studies in Bibliography | | | | Description: | Textual criticism—the study of the relationships
among
variant texts of works—has primarily been associated, throughout
its long history extending back to antiquity, with verbal works as transmitted
on tangible objects such as parchment and paper. But all works, whether
constructed of words or not, have had histories that—if fully
told—would reveal stages of growth and change, reflecting not only their
creators' intentions but also the ef- fects of their passage to the public and
through time. All works, in other words, have textual histories. Whether or not
one chooses in every case to use the word "text" to refer to the arrangement of
elements that make up a work is irrelevant; the point is that the issues and
problems dealt with in the textual criticism of verbal works have their
counterparts in the study of all other works. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 58 | Author: | Edited by DAVID L. VANDER MEULEN | Add | | | Title: | Studies in Bibliography, Volume 58 (2007/2008) | | | | Published: | 2014 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | Studies in Bibliography | | | | Description: | "The things which the textual critic has to talk about
are not things which present themselves clearly and sharply to the
mind.… Mistakes are therefore made which could not be made if the matter
under discussion were any corpo- real object, having qualities perceptible to
the senses." This remark, made nearly ninety years ago by A. E. Housman in his
well-known address "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism," suggests
the crux of many recent editorial discussions, in which some of editing's most
basic humanistic assumptions have been challenged with arguments influenced
by the movement sometimes called "postmodern" literary theory.1
1.
Housman's address to the Classical Association was made at Cambridge on 4
August 1921, and printed in the proceedings of the Association the
following year. The quotation is taken from the text as reprinted in
Housman, Selected Prose, ed. John Carter (Cambridge:
Cam- bridge Univ. Press, 1961), p. 136.
Many of the challengers are themselves editors, and were motivated at
least in part by a sense that textual criticism was both technically
overdeveloped as a field and falsely estranged from literary criticism. An
expressed inter- est in drawing textual and literary criticism nearer to one
another (as if they were not already interpenetrated dimensions of the same
discipline) was thus a prominent feature of many of the discussions. A second
inter- est, also of an integrating character, was in surmounting the perceived
national or linguistic isolation of Anglo-American editorial scholarship
through an engagement with editorial traditions of other countries, espe-
cially Germany and France. Movements to open intellectual horizons in this age
of overly determined specialization are to be welcomed, and this one has had
its benefits, as readers of Scholarly Editing: A Guide to
Research
can attest.2
2.
New York: Modern Language Association, 1995.
Many of the two dozen scholars whom David Greetham as- sembled for this
unusual project exhibited a felt sense of responsibility in their
contributions, which taken together provide Anglophone students with a useful
history of textual criticism across several periods of time and many
languages. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 59 | Author: | Edited by DAVID L. VANDER MEULEN | Add | | | Title: | Studies in Bibliography, Volume 59 (2015) | | | | Published: | 2015 | | | | Subjects: | Studies in Bibliography | | | | Description: | In the weeks preceding and following my seventy-fifth
birthday in January 2009, I wrote a memoir in the form of a tour guide to my
living room, with descriptions of the objects it contains and the
associations they have for me. I am delighted that the Council of the
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia has agreed to publish this memoir in due course, along
with some of my other autobiographical essays and pieces on book collecting,
as a separate volume. I am also pleased that the editor of Studies in
Bibliography, who has long shown an interest in biographical
studies of bibliographers, wishes to print a few excerpts from the memoir
here. I have selected eleven sections out of forty-five—those
numbered 1, 5, 7–10, 13, 17, 18, 22, and 36, which are some of the
ones most directly related to the world of books and bibliography. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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