Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction
- Author / Editor
- Kelemen, Erick.
Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction
- Published
- New York: Norton, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 605 pp.
- Description
- Introduces the theory and practice of editing literary works, with contextual materials to help readers understand why and how to edit various kinds of texts and produce various kinds of editions. Includes readings from various theorists and editors, and an anthology of sample documents reproduced in facsimile for editorial exercises. Includes discussion of Adam Pynkhurst as Chaucer's scribe and reproduces facsimiles of "all thirty" of the "traditional" witnesses to the text of Chaucer's Truth, and a transcription of the text by Henry Bradshaw from what may be a lost manuscript.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Truth
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies