Textual Scholarship

Offers new answers to Bateson's classic question: if the Mona Lisa is in the Louvre in Paris, where is Hamlet? The answer is to be found in acceptance and celebration of variance. An example is the Visio Pauli, found in many languages and many versions across the medieval period. Another is Hamlet itself, and many "texts" which are famous but actually are rooted in misquotation and error. Further, the "text" actually changes as we look at it, and one might compare this elasticity to the behaviour of quantum particles, which appear to change even as one examines them. The paper suggests that digital editions may represent, far better than any medium previously available, these infinities of change.

Argues that the common formulation: "the digital revolution is the greatest upheaval in our thought since Gutenberg" is wrong. It is actually the greatest change since Aldus Manutius, at least as far as textual scholarship is concerned. It draws analogies between the making of digital editions and Aldus' making of editions of Greek texts between 1495 and 1515.

This article suggests that Jerome McGann’s proposal for social text editing can beapplied to editions understood not as one author’s works, but rather as networksof publications by many authors and editors. The ability to create such an editionhas been hampered in the past by the inability of HTML to express the semantic richness of TEI XML. However, by adopting the new semantic tags, custom data attributes, and schema.org microdata introduced with HTML5, an interoperable digital social edition can be feasible. The Grub Street Project, an edition of books,pamphlets, and data from 18th-century London, is a test of this premise.

CBB Hochschulwesen (Fächer) Literaturwissenschaft Personale Informationsmittel Peter SZONDI BIOGRAPHIE 20-4 Peter Szondi : eine intellektuelle Biographie / Hans-Christian Riechers.-Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Campus-Verlag, 2020.-281 S. : Ill. ; 22 cm.-Zugl.: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 2018.-ISBN 978-3-593-51222-8 : EUR 39.95 [#6875] Die Bielefelder germanistische Dissertation von Hans-Christian Riechers geht davon aus, daß es eine Faszinationsgeschichte gibt, die sich mit dem Namen des Literaturwissenschaftlers Peter Szondi verbindet, nach dem heute sogar ein Institut der Freien Universität Berlin benannt ist. 1 Szondis intellektuelle Biographie zu schreiben, ist ein wissenschaftsgeschichtlich sinnvolles Unternehmen, denn die Wirkung des hermeneutisch sensiblen Wissenschaftlers auf das Fach war sicher groß. 2 Als Schüler von Emil Stai-ger 3 , aber auch als Kind einer jüdischen Kultur läßt sich Szondi ohne weite-res unter das Paradigma des Textgelehrten fassen. 4 Das insgesamt gese-1 Nach Szondi : allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Frei-en Universität Berlin 1965-2015 / hg. von Irene Albers.-Berlin : Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2016.-542 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm.-ISBN 978-3-86599-322-9 : EUR 30.70 [#4570].-Rez.: IFB 16-1

The extent of Sidonius’ literary and critical fortune is shown not only by a significant manuscript tradition but also by a substantial number of early editions, which I shall briefly survey here, focusing on the first editions with commentary in particular. These mark the real beginning of Sidonius scholarship and of the critical interpretation of his works, besides bearing witness to the continuing interest of Sidonius’ poems and letters. Individual editions reflect the varying cultural contexts for the reception of Sidonius’ works and their enduring significance both as historical documents an as a stylistic model, even after Poliziano. After the great ferment of the twelfth century, the survival and internalization of Sidonius’ manner depends, in fact, on an intense editorial and exegetic activity that gives rise, in a short space of time (c. 1475 – c. 1650), to a succession of printed editions, most richly furnished with notes and glosses commenting on the text.
Subsequently, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries see the birth of ‘modern’ interpretation where the Latin text is annotated but, above all, translated and thus made accessible to a wider public. The history of scholarship, initially represented by annotated printed editions, thus opens up to incorporate the history of translation (and of the philosophy underlying translation), which constitutes both a new phase and an element of continuity in the interpretation and reception of Sidonius’ work.

Short insight into the critical edition of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: "Denkbücher" (notebooks from 1788 to 1819).
The unorthodox style and the diversity of Jacobi’s thought can best be experienced in his notebooks, the ›Denkbüchern‹. They show someone whose profession was philosophy, far removed from academic constraints, someone who was passionate and an intellectual, someone who wrote down the things that moved him: precursors to philosophical debates, spontaneous thoughts on literature or politics, collectanea as well as transcripts of letters received or drafts of his own letters. The ›Denkbücher‹ are considered to be the key to understanding many ambiguous passages and thus constitute an indispensable addition to the correspondence and his works. It is only through these that many of Jacobi’s thoughts have been handed down. The eleven extant notebooks are now available in this text-critical edition.

The ancient Greek commentaries that were preserved on papyrus, i.e. the hypomnemata and marginalia on Greek authors as well as glossaries and lexica, have previously been published in scattered works. This corpus is unique in the academic world in that it presents these texts in collected form. The entire work is divided into four main sections: Pars I Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Pars II Commentaria in adespota; Pars III Lexica; Pars IV Concordantiae et Indices.
CLGP is a project based at Florence University, Istituto Papirologico “Girolamo Vitelli”.

Центральне питання у вивченні роману П. Куліша «Чорна рада» (1857) для майбутнього критичного його видання - це джерела тексту. Твір має дві версії - українську та російську, і відповідно, тут ітиметься про джерела тексту для обидвох цих версій, джерела і друковані, і рукописні: прижиттєві публікації, автографи, авторизовані копії, списки-повні тексти та їх окремі частини. Для комплексного вивчення цього питання треба встановити, які Кулішеві рукописи ми маємо в наявності, а які залишаються невідомі або їх утрачено. Треба з'ясувати взаємопов'язаність зацілілих рукописів, хронологію створення та редагування.

The Hoover Institution at Stanford University holds the largest collection of manu- scripts by Leopold Tyrmand in the world. An analysis of the materials stored at the Hoover Institution provides grounds for dissipating some doubts about the authenticity of his Diary 1954. Today, we are certain that Tyrmand’s work is an original diary that had been written in Poland. However, before it was published, it underwent various modifications (in terms of style, composition, and material). A very important issue is the kind of censorship made by the publishing house. The reading of Tyrmand’s letters proves that not all of the modifications were in accordance with his will, and that not all of them were initiated by him. Moreover, readers of the article will learn some facts about Tyrmand’s creative process and different variants of his works.

This paper examines the first Korean incarnation of the First Quarto of Hamlet, Lee Hyon-u's Hamlet Q1 (2009), by analyzing the challenges and opportunities attending its production. Hamlet Q1 signals a dramaturgical and conceptual shift from the melancholic Hamlets often framed in contexts of Korean shamanism to the unconventionally active Hamlet of the quarto of 1603. The production enlivens textual scholarship and fills a pedagogical void by propagating the idea of "multiple-text plays" to Lee's student-based audience. The indigenization of Lee's Hamlet Q1 is a form of contextual translation that facilitates understanding of Hamlet's original cultural contexts.

Juan de Arce de Otálora escribe entre 1550 y 1561 los Coloquios de Palatino y Pinciano, de cuyo texto poseemos cuatro manuscritos, tres de ellos relevantes para la constitutio textus. Basándose en las correcciones y enmiendas efectuadas en los códices, el autor de este artículo formula hipótesis plausibles para interpretar las causas y motivos de las reformulaciones textuales. En particular, se analizan las líneas de elaboración del marco conversacional y de los personajes, así como de su interrelación.
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En última instancia, se desvelan algunos procedimientos en los que, tras los discursos de los interlocutores, aparece encubierta la figura del autor.
Resumen en inglés:
Berween 1550 and 1561, Juan de Arce de Otálora wrote the Coloquios de Palatino y Pinciano, of which four manuscripts (three of them relevants to the constitutio textus) remain. Based on the corrections and changes carried out on the codex, the author of this paper develops plausible hypothesis in order to interpret the causes and reasons for textual reformulations. In particular the lines of elaboration of the conversational frame and of the characters, as well as their interrelations, are analized. Finally, some procedures for hiding the author behind the words of the characters, are revealed.
Palabras clave: Diálogo del XVI. Arce de Otálora. Crítica textual. Reescritura

Since we began the study for the edition of the Coloquios by Juan Arce de Otálora in 1992, we have insisted on the complex textual situation found within the three extant manuscript witnesses.  Since that time, we have dedicated our efforts to clearing up the relationship between manuscripts and the jungle of corrections by different hands therein. The following lines seek to give a brief presentation of the theoretical lines of this work and its conclusions for the genetic edition of classical tests.