The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism in All Modes-With Apologies to A. E. Housman

Author / Editor
Hanna, Ralph, [III].

Title
The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism in All Modes-With Apologies to A. E. Housman

Published
Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 53: 163-72, 2000.

Description
Examines variants in WBP 3.115-17 (especially "wight" versus "wright") to identify flaws in applying cladistic theory to manuscript stemmatics. Cladistic analysis underlies the Canterbury Tales Project.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.