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A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Foreword by David C Greetham (Paperback, New Ed)
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A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Foreword by David C Greetham (Paperback, New Ed)
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This work initiated a major shift in literary theory and method
when it was first published in 1983. Starting from a critical
inquiry into certain specialised issues in the practice of editing,
"A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism" gradually unfolds an
argument for a general revaluation of the grounds of literary study
as a whole. McGann's point of departure is the controversy he opens
with the once-dominant line of traditional textual and editorial
scholarships as it evolved through the fundamental work of W.W.
Greg, Fredson Bowers and G. Thomas Transelle. In departing from the
canonical approach to the technical question of copy-text, McGann
argues that theory of text must ground itself in a recovery of the
entire productive and reproductive history of the text. His book
proposes combining literary criticism and bibliographical
scholarship with social, institutional and collaborative models of
creation and production. Although focused on cases located in the
past 200 years, "A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism" has had a
wide-ranging influence on the scholarship of all literary periods.
It is one of the seminal works of modern textual theory.
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