Praise for Textual Editing and Criticism: An IntroductionThis is truly a most timely book, perhaps an example of the old adage of what's old being made new again. For Kelemen, after Jerome McGann, is absolutely correct in predicting that, in the digital age, we are at the dawn of a vast project ofcreating new editions of every text that matters. Sadly, as they both note, today's graduate programs, for the most part, have abandoned the training of a new generation of editors that we will all badly need. Kelemen's book promises to be a very teachable text, introducing advanced undergraduates and graduate students to what has become a lost art. Textual Editing and Criticism has therefore the potential of making an invaluable contribution to the way humanities departments, particularly English departments, train their students. --Stephen Watt, Professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington

Erick Kelemen's book shows, through hands-on practice and study, the critical importance of textual and editorial practices. No longer the objective methods of rarefied specialists, Textual Editing and Criticism brings these activities into the classroom as ethical imperatives. It integrates cogently for students of all levels the practices of textual and interpretive thinking. The documentary materials included in the book, particularly the alphabets showing different medieval scribal hands, will be central to my teaching for both graduates and undergraduates alike. --Elizabeth Scala, Associate Professor, Director, English Honors Program and Oxford Summer Program, Editor, Exemplaria, University of Texas at Austin

Erick Kelemen's Textual Editing and Criticism is timely, important, smart, and engaging. Those of us who teach textual studies have long needed an introductory textbook like this one. Obviously written by an experienced and gifted teacher, Kelemen's volume offers a lucid and wide-ranging presentation of editorial theory and practice that is suitable for undergraduates as wellas beginning graduate students, for whom textual editing and criticism is often unfamiliar territory. In addition to Kelemen's valuable survey of the field, Textual Editing and Criticism offers a treasure-trove of supplementary materials: a selection of theoretical statements by leading scholars and a set of example texts and editions that will be especially useful in the classroom. The combination of these crucial materials with Kelemen's overview of the field's history, methods, and theoretical debates will make this textbook indispensable for students and faculty. --Maura Ives, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University

• ISBN: 0393929426
• ISBN-13: 9780393929423
• Author : Erick Kelemen
• Foreword by : Donald H. Reiman
• Language : English
• Format:  Hardcover - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 1/12/2007
• Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
• Price ($AUD): $61.70


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