The One Text and the Many Texts
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, Peter.
The One Text and the Many Texts
- Published
- Literary and Linguistic Computing 15: 5-14, 2000.
- Description
- Despite trends in textual theory and the capability of representing multiple versions of a text electronically, editors should present eclectic, reconstructed texts--not as representations of lost originals but as texts that best explain "all the extant documents" and give readers convenient points of departure. Robinson draws examples from Federico Sanguineti's discussion of Dante's Commedia, K. Wachtel and D. C. Parker's discussions of the Greek New Testament, and Elizabeth Solopova's GP on CD-ROM.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.