Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has
developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production
rather than in reading and interpetation. These new essays extend
his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann
shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical
conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual
development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of
inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and
social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts.
McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies
of literary works as they are generated over time by authors,
editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and
other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of
textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual
production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the
past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats,
Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key
problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality.
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