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The life of texts : evidence in textual production, transmission and reception /

"The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer, Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be they papyri, manuscripts or printed editions. Notions of textual authority have varied conside...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Caruso, Carlo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: conceiving the life of texts / Richard Gameson
  • Editing Homer / Barbara Graziosi
  • The canon and the codex: on the material form of the Christian Bible / Francis Watson
  • Wandering nights: Shahrazād's mutations / Daniel L. Newman
  • A text in exile: Dante's divine comedy / Annalisa Cipollone
  • Textual metamorphosis: the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci / Carlo Vecce
  • Montaigne: the life and after-life of an unfinished text / John O'Brien
  • Rescuing Shakespeare: King Lear in its textual contexts / David Fuller
  • Textual evidence and musical analysis: once more on the first movement of Beethoven's Tempest Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 / Julian Horton
  • Fragments shored against ruin: reassembling the waste land / Jason Harding
  • Notes
  • Index of subjects and themes
  • Index of manuscripts and annotated printed copies
  • Index of names.