The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method. Studies in Book and Print Culture
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method. Studies in Book and Print Culture
- Published
- Buffalo and Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- viii, 242 pp.
- Description
- Wide-ranging discussion of the opposition between evidence (physical materials) and discourse (abstractions covered by the word "text") in bibliographical and literary study, with sustained attention to editions of Chaucer and their methods and assumptions.
- Dane demonstrates the methodology of collation with several versions of the epitaph on Chaucer's tomb. He interrogates the usefulness and consistency of the concept "basis of collation" as used in the service of predilections that underlie Skeat's edition, Manly and Rickert's edition, the Variorum edition, and Caxton's Canterbury Tales on CD-ROM.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.