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Texts and Textuality - Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation (Hardcover)
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Texts and Textuality - Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation (Hardcover)
Series: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
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These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis,
transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring
the connections between textual instability and textual theory,
interpretation, and pedagogy.
What makes this collection unique is that each essay brings a
different theoretical orientation-New Historicism,
Poststructuralism, or Feminism-to bear upon a different text, such
as Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury,
" or hypertext fiction, to explore the dialectical relationship
between texts and textuality.
The essays bring some of the textual theories that compete with
each other today into contact with a broad range of primarily
literary textual histories. That texts are intrinsically unstable,
frequently consisting of a series of determinate historical
versions, has consequences for all students of literature, because
different versions of a literary work frequently help shape
different readings independently of the interpretations brought to
bear upon them. Textual instability of the works is relevant to our
understanding of how the meanings of texts are generated. The
contributors build on the numerous challenges to the Anglo-American
editorial tradition mounted during the past decade by scholars as
diverse as Jerome McGann, D.F. McKenzie, Peter Shillingsburg, D.C.
Greetham, Hershel Parker, and Hans Walter Gabler. The volume
contributes to the paradigm shift in textual scholarship
inaugurated by these scholars. Index.
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