The Myth of Print Culture is a critique of bibliographical and
editorial method, focusing on the disparity between levels of
material evidence (unique and singular) and levels of text
(abstract and reproducible). It demonstrates how the particulars of
evidence are manipulated in standard scholarly arguments by the
higher levels of textuality they are intended to support. The
individual studies in the book focus on a range of problems: basic
definitions of what a book is; statistical assumptions and
editorial methods used to define and collate the presumably basic
unit of 'variant.' This work differs from other recent studies in
print culture in its emphasis on fifteenth-century books and its
insistence that the problems encountered in that historical milieu
(problems as basic as cataloguing errors) are the same as problems
encountered in other areas of literary criticism. The difficulties
in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend
to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial,
and literary history.
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