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New PDF release: Texts in multiple versions : histories of editions

By Luigi Giuliani, Herman Brinkman, Geert Lernout

ISBN-10: 1435616022

ISBN-13: 9781435616028

ISBN-10: 3433483523

ISBN-13: 9783433483527

ISBN-10: 9042023430

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Texts in a number of models represent the center challenge of textual scholarship. For texts from antiquity and the medieval interval, the various models could be the result of manuscript transmission, requiring editors and readers to discriminate among degrees of authority in version readings produced alongside the chain of copying. For texts of all sessions, and especially for extra sleek authors, there can also be a number of authorial types. those are of specific significance for genetic feedback, as they give a window at the author's pondering during the constructing paintings. the several contexts within which a number of types may possibly take place - diverse languages, diversified genres, diverse cultures, ranging during this assortment from historical Greek novels by way of Cervantes and Aub, dramatic texts from Portugal and Germany, poetry from The Netherlands and Lithuania, medical texts from the nineteenth century - supply extra layers of complexity. The histories of nations are mirrored within the histories of modifying. In Europe, this is often noticeable fairly within the nice interval of 'nation-building' of the nineteenth century. Essays during this quantity survey editorial task within the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany within the 19th century, concluding that country development and scholarly enhancing are twinned. As a kingdom searches for its personal id, textual scholarship is pressed into carrier to discover and edit the texts on which to set up that identification. the 2 strands of this quantity (multiple types of texts; versions and nationwide histories) testify to the centrality of textual modifying to many fields of analysis. there's fabric the following for literary students, historians, and for readers drawn to texts from old Greece to modernist classics

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The goal is to publish 38 VARIANTS 5 (2006) Figure 4: Sample of Meister poetry materials Jan Gielkens Jumping to Conclusions 39 6 volumes containing all the published and unpublished poetry of Ernst Meister simultaneously in 2008. One of the aspects of this edition that I would like to expound upon is the way in which the team of editors collaborates. The team has 17 members, three of whom are chief editors. 5 The various books of poetry by Ernst Meister were divided among the members of the editorial team, who, alone or in pairs, have been preparing the text constitution and commentary of the separate books of poetry for some years.

It is within this context of proselytism and innovation in dissemination strategies that we should consider Llull’s concern for the multilingual dissemination of some of his works. 1 Multilingualism in the creation of Llull’s works Most of the work written by Llull has been preserved in Latin; a smaller, though in no way negligible part, has a double version in Catalan and Latin; finally, an even smaller part is written exclusively in Catalan. 7 Regardless of this remaining evidence, Llull declared in many books his desire to produce another version of the same work; furthermore, in many cases there is a clear wish to obtain triple versions, in Catalan, Latin and Arabic.

Jan Gielkens Jumping to Conclusions 41 Figure 6: Access to folders The folder Es kam die Nachricht contains the volume, published in 1970, I and my colleague Ton Naaijkens are working on. These folders are subdivided into files, containing all surviving archive versions of a single poem. We can view each manuscript individually and look at it in detail, in four percentages of magnification (Figure 7). ; Figure 8). Figure 8: “Findbuch” In the near future all the texts of the published poems will be added to the searchable database of the website.

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