Scholarly Editing

Vom Offensichtlichen. Über Typographie und Edition am Beispiel barocker Drucküberlieferung (Grimmelshausens »Simplicissimus«)

by Annika Rockenberger

Co-authored with Per Röcken, published in 'editio. International yearbook of scholarly editing', 2009

Recent contributions debating the question whether the typography of a text should be taken into consideration by... more Recent contributions debating the question whether the typography of a text should be taken into consideration by scholarly editing have hardly ever paid attention to printed books of the early modern period (which is approximately the era of the hand press), even though they present a wide range of specific typographical evidence. We attempt to rectify this negligence by closely examining a typical example of a baroque print, namely the editio princeps of Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen’s Der Abentheurliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668). In order to effectively do so, our examination of the document employs the instruments of analytical bibliography and distinguishes between two main levels of typography, i.e. ‘macro-’ and ‘micro-typography’. It is our objective to assemble a complete catalogue of typographical data that is fit to be represented or recorded by scholarly editing. Next, we endeavour to investigate how earlier editions of the Simplicissimus implement the typography of the text by showing which sections of data are selected and by what means they are recorded. Finally, we try to reconstruct some of the reasons why scholarly editing in general should pay close attention to typography both in theory and in practice – that is to say, we engage in basic reflections on various strategies that are employed to justify the consideration and recording of typography within the framework of editions of printed texts.

Ist Edition ein Kanonisierungsfaktor? Unvorgreifliche Überlegungen zur Präzisierung der Fragestellung

by Annika Rockenberger

Co-authored with Per Röcken, published in 'Kanon, Wertung und Vermittlung. Literatur in der Wissensgesellschaft', ed. by Simone Winko et al. Berlin 2011

The actor and the bad poet: the memorial reconstruction of Shakespeare (SAA, 2011)

by Alan Stewart

A Tale of Two Texts: Or, How One Might Edit Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

by Hans Walter Gabler

pdf image file from Woolf Studies Annual 10 (2004), 1-30.

Motherhood: Still Women’s Most Valued Creative Contribution to Society? by Ivy Helman

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion Project.

I’m expecting…

The stork is delivering as we speak!  I hope you can join me in celebrating this joyous... more I’m expecting…

The stork is delivering as we speak!  I hope you can join me in celebrating this joyous news  – although you should know, the stork is the United States Postal Service, and I am expecting my first book, not  my first baby!

It sounds somewhat crass (even to me whose book this is) to even try and pass off a book in the same way in which women announce they are expecting baby/babies.  Sadly, writing books, which is one use of a woman’s creative energy, does not seem to be as valued as a woman’s ability to procreate, another use of a woman’s creative energy.  Among the circle of friends I grew up with, children still seem to hold a more cherished place.  On facebook.com, my “friends” post weekly updates as to the progress of their babies, pictures of their “baby bumps” and pictures of their newborns.  Just through reading comments, the excitement is palpable.

Enduring the Trials of Graduate School: From Conception to Labor Pains and Birth By Michele Stopera Freyhauf

by Michele Stopera Freyhauf

originally published on the Feminism and Religion Project.

Going back to school at 30-something to complete a B.A. in a completely different field (from accounting to Religious... more Going back to school at 30-something to complete a B.A. in a completely different field (from accounting to Religious Studies and Theology) was an interesting endeavor. After many years of legal and business writing as well as crunching numbers, learning how to write academically, including formatting citations and using new technology was quite an undertaking that has proven to be rewarding. All the searchable databases in the library no longer included card catalogues and microfiche. This was amazing! No more correction ribbon and electric typewriters (am I showing my age yet?!) Going to college in 1985 is different then going back to college in 2006.

The transition did not stop with technology and formatting papers. With each class and each instructor, a new transition was introduced on my way to the finish line. It was a very large transition and more difficult when you sit in classes with students your own children’s ages. Add to that the reintroduction of the grammar game; in-text citations or footnote citations, semi-colons or dashes, commas or no comma, etc. With the help of great mentors and patient professors, I prevailed and moved on to my next task (I mean transition) – Graduate School. New professors, new demands, different writing styles, scholarly growing pains in abundance. The research and writing intensified (which is an understatement). Then there is the addition of critical reviews, peer reviews, and multiple presentations. Each professor with his or her own format and requirement. Each with their own style of subjectivity or, if you are lucky, a specific grading protocol with tangible prompts or goals. It is a world of unexpected twists, but, in my opinion, better than undergraduate work.

Narratives About Collaborating Playwrights: The New Bibliography, "Disintegration," and the Problem of Multiple Authorship in Shakespeare

by Edmund King

Originally published in Laurie Johnson and Darryl Chalk, eds., Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 249–67.

In the Character of Shakespeare: Canon, Authorship, and Attribution in Eighteenth-Century England

by Edmund King

PhD thesis, English, University of Auckland, 2008.

"Pope's 1723–25 Shakespear, Classical Editing, and Humanistic Reading Practices"

by Edmund King

published in "Eighteenth-Century Life" 32, no. 2 (2008): 3-13.

Under Utgivning

by Mats Dahlstrom

The thesis investigates in what way the scholarly edition performs bibliographic functions as it manages and positions... more The thesis investigates in what way the scholarly edition performs bibliographic functions as it manages and positions other documents. This is where the study differs from previous research on scholarly editing and bibliography. It aims to trace the boundary between scholarly editing and bibliography by comparing crucial objectives, problems and conflicts in each field. This is accomplished by identifying the argumentation, assumptions and conceptual frameworks that form the rationale for the fields, and subjecting them to qualitative critical and historical analysis. The main empirical material is editorial theory literature, with scholarly editions serving as illustrating examples. Key questions concern the way scholarly editors and bibliographers identify, define and reproduce their respective source material; the reasons for conflicts between editors’ varying expectations of the reproductive force in printed and digital editions; and the connections and demarcations between scholarly editing and bibliography and between scholarly editions and reference works such as bibliographies. Bibliographic and media theory form the basis for the theoretical framework, with additional input from book history, literary theory, genre studies and scholarly communication studies. The thesis suggests a distinction between the two activities of clustering and transposition, and the distortion the latter brings about. These concepts are employed to detect, group and explain activities and problems in scholarly editing and bibliography, who both manage sets of documents by clustering them to one another and transposing their contents by producing new documents. There is a noticeable division of labour between the two tasks, and they also correspond to different types of editions. The study also ties the dominant editorial strategies and edition types to respective bibliographic foci, and argues that central conflict areas are primarily accentuated and only secondarily introduced with digital editing. An idealistic strand treats editing as unbiased delivery of disambiguable and reproducible content, while to a hermeneutical strand the edition is an argumentative and content constraining filter, its editor being a kind of biased author. In a third strand, editions are content circulating ecosystems with a division of labour between collaborating media types. In particular the view of editions as constitutive arguments is related to analogue observations in LIS and genre and scholarly communication studies. On the one hand, editing is supposed to be a dynamic research area, ready to respond to new findings and scholarly ideals. On the other, several arenas demand the edition to serve as a conservative force, static and confirmatory. The potential of digital media points to a distinction between edition and archive, where the former but not the latter explicitly takes an interpretative stand. Digital editing also boosts the idealistic strand by the seeming promise to separate facts from interpretation and to enhance maximum exhaustiveness and reproductivity. Although the thesis identifies many commonalities between editions and reference works and the way these are structured, there is a crucial difference. The edition is simultaneously a work’s reference and referent. Bibliographies and reference works cannot make that claim.

Dante's Monarchia as a test case for the use of phylogenetic methods in stemmatic analysis

by Prue Shaw

Co-authored with Heather Windram, Christopher Howe and Peter Robinson.

Conseils pour l’édition des documents en langue italienne (XIVe-XVIIe siècle)

by Marc H. Smith

Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes, 159 (2001), p. 541-578

A contribution to the harmonising of editorial practices among historians and philologists, this article summarises a... more A contribution to the harmonising of editorial practices among historians and philologists, this article summarises a number of criteria for editing (or simply quoting) Italian vernacular documents from the late medieval, Renaissance and early modern periods, together with a few thoughts on some neglected or yet unsettled points. The following aspects are discussed : paleographical issues, abbreviations, word separation, diacritics and punctuation, Latin and foreign words introduced into Italian, and cryptography. Appended is a dictionary of ca. 500 common abbreviations. The article is aimed especially at non-native speakers of Italian (but better brush up on your French!).

En vue de contribuer à harmoniser les pratiques éditoriales d'historiens et philologues, cet article présente les principaux critères de transcription applicables à l'édition (voire à la simple citation) de documents vernaculaires italiens, de la fin du Moyen Age au début de l'époque moderne, avec quelques réflexions sur des points négligés ou discutés. Principaux aspects abordés: quelques problèmes paléographiques, le système abréviatif, la séparation des mots, la normalisation des signes diacritiques et de la ponctuation, les mots latins ou étrangers acclimatés, la cryptographie. En annexe, dictionnaire d'environ 500 abréviations courantes. L'article est destiné particulièrement aux chercheurs dont l'italien n'est pas la langue maternelle.

Working with Words—--Editing and Editage

by Abhishek Goel

言葉のビジネス: Editage と英文校正について

by Abhishek Goel

Academic Editing and Proofreading

by Lucy Karanja

Review of Qumran Cave 1•II: The Isaiah Scrolls, by Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint

by Eibert Tigchelaar

Review of the recent DJD 32 edition of the two Qumran Cave 1 Isaiah Scrolls, published in RBL 12/2011

Internationality of Academic Journals: A Case Study on RELIEVE.[Internacionalidad De Las Revistas Académicas: Estudio De Caso Con RELIEVE]

by Francisco Aliaga

Medieval Philology and Nationalism: The British and German Editors of Thomas of Erceldoune

by Richard Utz

Florilegium, Volume 23, Number 2 (2006)

The reception of the late fourteenth-century romance/lay/ballad Thomas of Erceldoune by romantic enthusiasts,... more The reception of the late fourteenth-century romance/lay/ballad Thomas of Erceldoune by romantic enthusiasts, antiquarians, modernist philologists, and twentieth-century medievalists reveals the dangerous indebtedness of a quasi-sciencific medieval philology to competing national paradigmatic constructions (German, English, Scottish) on the one hand and the ongoing foundational value of philological work for current medieval textual scholarship on the other. Thus, while debunking the disinterestedness claimed by modernist philology, the essay attests to the enduring success of philological editorial practice regarding this specific late medieval poem.

Dina Ripsman Eylon is interviewed by Dr. Anna Faktorovich, editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal,

by Dina Ripsman Eylon

Volume III:1, Spring 2011

This special issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal deals with editing techniques. The issue features interviews... more This special issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal deals with editing techniques. The issue features interviews with a number of editors. (I'm one of the editors.)

Authors' and Editors' Perspectives on Peer Review Quality In Three Scholarly Nursing Journals

by Mona Shattell