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Variants : Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
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- 15-16 2021 – Textual Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century
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Preface
Editors’ Preface [Full text] Wout Dillen, Elli Bleeker, Laura Esteban-Segura and Stefano Rosignoli
Essays
The Reconstruction of the Author’s Movement Through the Text, or How to Encode Keystroke Logged Writing Processes in TEI-XML [Full text] Lamyk Bekius
Creative Concurrence. Gearing Genetic Criticism for the Sociology of Writing [Full text] Dirk Van Hulle
Creators' Intentions and the Realities of Performance: Some Exemplary Editorial Problems from the Savoy Operas [Full text] Ronald Broude
On the Threshold of Editorship. Or From Collection to Oeuvre [Full text] Paulius V. Subačius
Does the Editor Know Better' The Editorial Vicissitudes of the 20th Century Polish writers [Full text] Dariusz Pachoki
From Christ the Saviour to God the Father: Adjustments
to Forgiveness in Donne’s Short Poem, “Wilt thou forgive. . . ” [Full text] Anthony Lappin
Some Answer Poems and their Manuscript History: Jonson, Herrick, and the Circulation of Verse [Full text] Mark Bland
Editing for Man and Machine. Digital Scholarly Editions and their Users [Full text] Anne Baillot and Anna Busch
Work in Progress
Restricted Translation of Historical Dutch Text [Full text] Hugo Maat
Reflections on Digital Scholarly Editions: From Humanities Computing to Digital Humanities, the Influence of Web 2.0, and the Impact of the Editorial Process [Full text] Michelle Doran
Dynamic Facsimiles: Note on the Transcription of Born-Digital Works for Genetic Criticism [Full text] Dirk Van Hulle
Review Essays
Tracing “Auto(bio)graphy” in “Three Novels” by Samuel Beckett: A Review Essay [Full text] Stefano Rosignoli
Reviews
Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder. Text und Kommentar [Full text] Christian Baier
Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana [Full text] Manuela Bertone
Walter Benjamin, Berliner Chronik / Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert [Full text] Jonas Rosenbrück
PubDate: 2021-07-02
- 14 2019 – Varia
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From production to transmission, from genesis to reception, text is an infinitely complex object of study that we can approach and represent from a wide range of perspectives. Influenced by technological inventions and transnational trends, the field of textual scholarship continues to evolve: we refine or alter our methodologies and we broaden our research focus. Technological developments have become a research topic in and by themselves, as we study how digitality affects modes of presentation, or influences how we conceptualize "texts", "documents" and "works". At the same time, the core business of textual scholarship – to investigate text in all its manifestations – remains unchanged. The diverse nature of contemporary textual scholarship is reflected in the contents of the fourteenth issue of Variants. In the opening essay, Paul Eggert sets the tone by epitomising the fluidity between the concepts "archive" and "edition" brought about by digital devices. How to relate oneself to the seemingly contradicting impulses to archive or to edit is a familiar issue for textual scholars, but the growth of both digital archives and digital editions has intensified this dichotomy. To help us imagine the wide range of possibilities to (re)present textual material digitally, Eggert proposes a horizontal slider or scroll bar, with the archive and the edition at opposite ends. He concludes that the expansion of editorial activities may come to include literary criticism as well. Our writing practices become increasingly digital too: scholarly editors of contemporary materials are confronted with an overflow of digital documents that may require an entirely different definition of a version. Christopher A. Plaisance looks at Aristotelian philosophy and establishes an ontology of fundamental concepts like "work", "text", "document" and "version" suitable for a textual scholarship framework. The transformative effects of technology on scholarly editing are also central to the contribution by Merisa Martinez, Wout Dillen, Elli Bleeker, Anna-Maria Sichani and Aodhán Kelly. Together, they carried out a large-scale survey among the international editorial community in which participants were asked about their position on access and accessibility of digital editions. The survey results show us that for many important issues, such as Open Access and web accessibility, no agreed-on, clear-cut solutions as yet exist. Should digital editions provide access to the underlying code? How can scholars exploit the full potential of the digital medium to disseminate their findings? Although the most suitable approach to these and related questions will differ per editing team, the scholarly community will undeniably benefit from guidelines and the sharing of best practices. Building upon the methodological value of giving users insight into the workings of a software program used for text analysis, Elisa Nury examines the visualization of collation results using the tool PyCoviz. Nury aptly illustrates how to implement and refine an open source tool to examine the manuscript tradition of Calpurnicus Flaccus in greater detail. In doing so, she also demonstrates how visualization can function both as a research instrument and as a means of communication. Claudia Tardelli presents a fascinating report of the challenges that arise when editing Francesco da Buti's commentary on Dante's Commedia. Da Buti's manuscript has a complex tradition that includes authorial revisions on some – but not all – documents as well as numerous contaminations. Tardelli therefore makes the case for a critical edition that is based on a single, most authoritative manuscript with an apparatus fontium. This paves the way for a proper contextualisation of Da Buti's work and see how it relates to other Dante commentaries and additional historical sources. Peter Groves, then, identifies an increasing neglect of the metre in scholarly editions of early modern texts like Shakespeare's plays. This subtle yet significant change in editorial policy has important consequences for the way contemporary readers experience those texts. Groves calls for action and proposes a new standard for representing metrical information in texts that would uncover and illuminate an essential feature of Shakespeare's verse. We move from Britain's bard to the national poet of Lithuania, Kristijan Donelaitis, whose poem Metai is the topic of Mikas Vaicekauskas' contribution. V...
PubDate: 2019-03-20
