Chaucer's Poetry, Versioning, and Hypertext
- Author / Editor
- Machan, Tim William.
Chaucer's Poetry, Versioning, and Hypertext
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 73 (1994): 299-316.
- Description
- A clear-text, eclectic edition provides convenience and coherence for the reader by presenting a text (such as Chaucer's) as the artist's completed product. But current interest in "versioning"--seeing the text as a process by comparing versions and formulating a sense of historical constitution--can be accommodated on computers via hypertext, which keeps open interpretive possibilities closed by traditional theory.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.