The advances of book history and editorial theory remind us that it
is vital to look behind the text we read. In this book Sukanta
Chaudhuri explores, at a very fundamental level, how texts are
constituted and how they work. He applies insights from many lines
of study not brought together so closely before: theories of
language, signification and reception alongside bibliography,
textual criticism, editorial theory and book history. Blending case
studies with general observation and theory, he considers the
implications of the physical form of the text; the relation between
oral and written language, and between language and other media;
the new territory opened up by electronic texts; and special
categories like play-books and translations. Drawing on an
exceptionally wide range of material, both Western literature and
Indian works from Sanskrit aesthetics to the poetry of Rabindranath
Tagore, Chaudhuri sets a new agenda for the study of texts.
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