In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vu
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Table of contents :
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Copyright page
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Essay 1: The Evidence for Literary Knowledge
Essay 2: Textual Criticism, the Humanities, and J. M. Coetzee
Essay 3: The Semiotics of Bibliography
Essay 4: Some Functions of Textual Criticism
Essay 5: Responsibility for Textual Changes in Long-Distance Revisions
Essay 6: Text as Communication
Essay 7: Revisiting Authorial Intentions
Essay 8: How Literary Works Exist
Essay 9: Convenient Scholarly Editions
Essay 10: Scholarly Editing as a Cultural Enterprise
Essay 11: Work and Text in Nonliterary Text-Based Disciplines
Essay 12: Publishers’ Records and the History of Book Production
Essay 13: Cultural Heritage, Textuality, and Social Justice
Bibliography
Index
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