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The Life of Texts - Evidence in Textual Production, Transmission and Reception (Paperback)
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The Life of Texts - Evidence in Textual Production, Transmission and Reception (Paperback)
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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 considerably across the ages under the
influence of different (and differently motivated) agents, such as
scribes, annotators, editors, correctors, grammarians, printers and
publishers, over and above the authors themselves. The need for
preserving the written legacy of peoples and nations as faithfully
as possible has always been counterbalanced by a duty to ensure its
accessibility to successive generations at different times and in
different cultural contexts. The ten chapters collected in this
volume offer critical approaches to such authors and texts as
Homer, the Bible, The Thousand and One Nights, Dante, Montaigne,
Shakespeare, Eliot, but also Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts
uniquely combining word and image, as well as Beethoven's 'Tempest'
sonata (Op. 31, No. 2) as seen from the angle of music as text.
Together the contributors argue that an awareness of what the 'life
of texts' entails is essential for a critical understanding of the
transmission of culture.
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