Texts in multiple versions : histories of editions /
Texts in multiple versions constitute the core problem of textual scholarship. For texts from antiquity and the medieval period, the many versions may be the result of manuscript transmission, requiring editors and readers to discriminate between levels of authority in variant readings produced alon...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2006.
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Colección: | Variants ;
5. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Texts in multiple versions constitute the core problem of textual scholarship. For texts from antiquity and the medieval period, the many versions may be the result of manuscript transmission, requiring editors and readers to discriminate between levels of authority in variant readings produced along the chain of copying. For texts of all periods, and particularly for more modern authors, there may also be multiple authorial versions. These are of particular importance for genetic criticism, as they offer a window on the author's thinking through the developing work. The different contexts in. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (389 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781435616028 1435616022 9401205426 9789401205429 |