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ISSN (Print) 1559-2936 - ISSN (Online) 1933-7418
Published by Indiana University Press

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Introduction: Provocations Toward Creative-Critical Editing
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  Abstract: This special issue arose from a virtual symposium that we organized at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, in April 2021. The symposium, consisting of a roundtable and a practical workshop, was oriented around four key terms: intentionality, annotation, translation, and embodiment. The terms were chosen to call attention to different facets of the editor's task: the need to establish a relation to the author's intentions when preparing the text, and to annotate this text in a way that serves both author and reader. The concept of translation highlighted the transformations that a text undergoes as it moves from manuscript page to proof, and then onwards to a succession of print and digital ... Read More
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Editing as Creative Act: An Experiment in Speculative Thinking
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  Abstract: What if'What if we were to imagine the act of editing, for a moment at least, as an act of performance-making'Or just making'An act'Or, to put it another way, what if we were to begin thinking about editing with our bodies'What if we were to think with our bodies and acknowledge them as vulnerable entities'Or more simply perhaps, what happens when we acknowledge that editing is an embodied practice'Or: what if we were to see the words we were working with, the words of others or indeed our own words (which were always the words of others to begin with anyway) as bodies'Or vulnerable bodies'1What if, instead of thinking about editing as an act of revision, verification, amendment, redaction, reduction, we thought of ... Read More
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Editing Otherwise
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  Abstract: The paragon editor presents authoritative texts. Whatever scholarly paradigm they subscribe to, they are likely to use their judgment and expertise to establish a text that is based on editorial principle not personal caprice. Their ethos is neutrality (in service to the text), restraint (no creative interpolations here), and mastery (over the text's history and a potential panoply of revisions, variants, and corruptions). This representation of a paragon editor is rooted in an ideal of scholarship that is coming under increasing pressure from various directions: Black, Feminist, Queer, Decolonial, and related modes of critique that interrogate the concepts of objectivity and rigor that structure how knowledge is ... Read More
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Provoked by Translation
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  Abstract: Imagine a gashing wound. Imagine a wound suffered by a dashing though rather portly lieutenant in the artillery. Imagine him wounded in the head and calling it the arm, in salutation of another damaged poet whose generosity he faulted. Imagine him befriending a painter with blue hands launching himself into painting on the winds of the blue. Imagine an art devoted to understanding the meaning of study and blown apart by World War I. Imagine fearless living lost in deathly confusion. Imagine the confusion of rips and tears and voices shattered like shrapnel shattering. Imagine shards of voice without the magic of breaking to make, and instead a hundred deafnesses and blindnesses each lost in their own hearing and ... Read More
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(Say) Between 22 and 24 Seconds: Edition as Totality
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  Abstract: The cast shadow of the subject of enunciation onto its utterance, the I opens up language to its performative circumstances.Joseph Cornell, still from Rose Hobart, 1936. 16 mm film, 20 min. Museum of Modern Art, New York.The sciences might be expected to diminish the ambiguity of the language, both because of their tradition of clarity and because much of their jargon has, if not only one meaning, only one setting and point of view. But such words are not in general use; they only act as a further disturbing influence on the words used already. Those who remember how, at the time of the eclipse, the word 'totality' came to mean a part of the surface of England, will not expect much rigidity in the popular use of ... Read More
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The Analytical Onomasticon Project: An Auto-Ethnographic Vignette
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  Abstract: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora […][…] vivam.The following is an ethnographic vignette of my own editorial practices during a digital research project on the Metamorphoses of Ovid that I began in the late 1980s and with help from research assistants worked on until 2004.1 Its original purpose was to support writing of a conventional book on the Met, but work with my first assistant turned up such compelling problems of mismatch between computational form and poetic meaning that I abandoned the book and devoted myself to them.2 By putting this experience into circulation here my aim is to keep the theorizing firmly grounded in real machinery and actual poetry while I attempt to describe what ... Read More
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Editing and Curating Online: Beginning Again
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  Abstract: Beginning again and again is a natural thing even when there is a series. Beginning again and again and again explaining composition and time is a natural thing.Online projects over the past twenty-five years have built an impressive record in making cultural legacy available across the globe, often with facsimiles of extraordinary excellence. In the United States, The Women Writers Project, The William Blake Archive, and The Walt Whitman Archive are exemplary of broad achievements that have come in many countries and in every discipline. At the same time they have all but institutionalized models for the digital transmission of literary works that are in important ways profoundly misguided. Moved by the ... Read More
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Intentions, Extensions: Creative Editing and Translation Practice in A
Sauvage Reader
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  Abstract: I initially approached my project merely as a translator: the goal was to translate selected works of the French poet Cécile Sauvage (1883–1927) into English for a modern audience. I say "as a translator" to mean that I was, at the time, flummoxed by how to reconcile the wearing of many hats as demanded by this interdisciplinary and creative project — those of reader, translator, critic, editor, and scholar — and I thought it would be easier to compartmentalize and consider each of these positions in turn as I went. However, the actual, ongoing doing of the project has shown this to be impossible and has revealed considerable overlap between the many aforementioned positions, so that consideration of one influences ... Read More
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Found Poems and Creative Editing
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  Abstract: The Academy of American Poets defines found poems in this way:Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.("Found Poem")It is not that act of collaging, which is so clearly a visual form of creative editing, that troubles me, and I have been as prolific a user of collage in my poetry as most other contemporary poets. My difficulty lies more with what the glossary entry for "Found Poem" refers to as "pure" found poems:A pure found poem consists exclusively of outside texts: the words of the poem remain as they ... Read More
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"The Answer, as well as a technique": A Reflection on Editorial, Creative,
and Critical Labor
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  Abstract: While I have worked in house or freelance as a sub-editor or editorial assistant for more than twenty years, I have also pursued an academic career that — not for want of trying — has largely been conducted outside the academy since the successful completion of my PhD some years ago. My research specialism is ecopoetics, which broadly speaking concerns the way texts engage with the natural environment, and environmental crisis in particular. This interest brings together my own practice as a poet with issues covered by the publications on which I have worked: I began my career subbing periodicals for the renewable energy and waste management industries, and I have more recently worked on journals covering the built ... Read More
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Editing in the Bath: Or, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Intentionality, and the
Man from Petrograd
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  Abstract: I shall here focus on editing and authorial intention, or rather one particular case of authorial intention — namely the intention of that difficult Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, most famous for The Wreck of the Deutschland, a shipwreck (of a) poem which, like almost all Hopkins poems, was not published in his lifetime.So, what was Hopkins's intention when writing' Well, he makes it very clear: it was, alarmingly, that he might convert his editor; or rather, that he might convert the man who would become his editor, his posthumous editor — namely his Oxford friend, Robert Bridges. Witness his 1877 letter to Bridges: "I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you" (Abbott 1935, 46 ... Read More
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Digital Editing and "Experience […] looked upon as a kind of text": A
Provocation in Three Exhibitions
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  Abstract: Scholarly editing has long operated under what could be called a "depth" model that overlooks the role of experience. This model is best exemplified by two important concepts in textual scholarship: the archetype and the copy text. The goal of the critical editor is to "reduce error" by collating versions of existing documents to bring about a work that comes closest to a presumed archetypal text, whether it is a missing ancient document or the work that the author finally intended. In either case, the depth model suggests that there is only one ideal reading of the text, because there is only one possible master version, but also one authoritative way to represent it. And representation is key: the critical editor ... Read More
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Version and Document: Conception and Design in the Editing of Revision
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  Abstract: In The Fluid Text, I argue that written works naturally exist as a sequence of versions, that each version and their collective sequencing have meaning, and that in editing these fluid texts — that is, works that exist in multiple versions — we should give readers fuller access to the kinds of revision — authorial, editorial, and adaptive — that generate the versions.Melville's last prose work, Billy Budd, is an exemplary fluid text. It exists as a full manuscript with thousands of authorial revisions that are witness to various stages of composition and at least three discernible versions. In the past century, its text has been transcribed four times in scholarly editions, including most recently, the Melville ... Read More
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The Scholarly Edition as Digital Experience: Reading, Editing, Curating
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  Abstract: "Curating" is a buzzword nowadays. But I feel justified in making it the subject of my provocation, for I believe it can help us reimagine the scholarly edition, especially the digital kind. To that end, any similarities, real or rhetorical, between "curating" and "editing" is not what I am interested in. In fact, how they are in essence different, but complementary, activities is what I want to explore, specifically how curation, as a professional practice, might be fruitfully brought into the domain of textual scholarship. The reasons for doing this are varied, but the main one is to enrich the digital scholarly edition, to make it more versatile and attractive, and, ultimately, to increase its user base. One of ... Read More
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Reaching Out to the Reader: The Audio Guide as a Tool in Digital Genetic
Editions
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  Abstract: This paper attempts to address the crucial but often neglected matter of the reader's engagement with the digital genetic edition and suggests the introduction of new tools — namely the audio guide — to support a more effective communication of the course of literary writing. The idea of including audible information in a digital genetic edition comes from the challenges set by the "Digital Solomòs" project, which is the digital archive of Dionysios Solomòs, the Greek national poet and an important figure of 19th century Romanticism in Greece. The archive apart from the digital scholarly edition of the poet's draft manuscripts will also include genetic editions of some of his major works. Solomòs is in fact a very ... Read More
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Literary Fields Forever: Playing with the Book of Disquiet
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  Abstract: And I offer you this book because I know it is beautiful and useless.We are used to describing the literary field as a communication space with a rigidly defined structure. Such structure is characterized by the constellation of a set of functions (such as writing, editing, and reading) and actors (writer, editor, and reader) around a privileged artifact (the book). This conceptual rigidity thus extends to the very notion of the book, which is predominantly imagined as a closed and self-sufficient object in which textuality and materiality (either in print or digital media) coincide.What would happen if, instead of conceiving those three functions and the artifact that we call the book as predetermined and ... Read More
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The Construct Editor: Tweaking with Jane, Writing with Ted, Editing with
an AI'
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  Abstract: "It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted […] for publication"; in a Ted Chiang short story, human science has become a matter of attempting to follow the intelligent machines.1 Academic journal articles are now exercises in translation as human scientists engage with machine-level thinking that they cannot fully grasp.What would happen to humanities research in these circumstances' Would humanities work include attempts at exegesis of the literature machines generated for themselves' In the 20th century the literary programmer and OuLiPo member Raymond Queneau argued that only a machine can read a sonnet written by another machine — and his own automatic sonnet Cent mille ... Read More
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Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience by
Christopher Ohge (review)
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  Abstract: Peter Stallybrass described the rise of the novel in the modern era, and the linear, immersive style of reading on which it was predicated, as a "brilliantly perverse interlude in the long history of discontinuous reading" (Stallybrass 47). Positing the origins of this history in the appropriation of the codex form of the book by early Christians, Stallybrass's account delineates a long chronology in which a normalized practice — reading a novel from beginning to end — is revealed to be an anomaly. In the even lengthier history of textual transmission, the scholarly edition might be similarly considered as anomalous. The set of concerns that have shaped its evolution — the accurate and stabilized representation of ... Read More
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The Case of the Initial Letter: Charles Dickens and the Politics of the
Dual Alphabet by Gavin Edwards (review)
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  Abstract: In The Case of the Initial Letter, Gavin Edwards traces the multifaceted nature of capitalization across Charles Dickens's works in the context of a century where capitalization was both normalized in texts and expanded in potential meaning. Edwards examines how "capital" meanings arise and evolve in printed texts, and how the relationship between author and printer allows (or suppresses or changes) those meanings. Dickens, with his clout and control over his publications, due to his popularity and financial success, proves an ideal author for a study of this kind.Edwards begins with a brief history of the transition, around 1820, to standardized capitalization: upper case for proper nouns, the beginning of ... Read More
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Latin American Textualities: History, Materiality, and Digital Media ed.
by Heather J. Allen and Andrew R. Reynolds (review)
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  Abstract: This book examines textual objects of very different sorts from Latin America, from costume books and publishers' catalogues to a book of photographs of ephemeral graffiti. An introduction, ten central essays, and an afterword describe the question of how to apply the latest approaches in textual studies to works in different media, from different times and places. These include digital approaches to bibliography and sound archives, a careful consideration of the origin of some of the clothing in Guaman Poma's famous manuscript, the use of postcards in Nicanor Parra's anti-poetry, and a smart new approach to the question of the bodies of Jorge Luis Borges's librarians of Babel. It is a book that engages the reader ... Read More
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Editing the Harlem Renaissance ed. by Joshua M. Murray and Ross K.
Tangedal (review)
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  Abstract: It seems impossible to talk about the period of unprecedented growth in Black American creative output, taking place a century ago and now commonly known as the Harlem Renaissance, without first mentioning how much it is talked about. The Harlem Renaissance, now also frequently called the New Negro Renaissance or New Negro Movement, was referred to by participants as both a "movement" and a "renaissance," and frequently as the "Negro renaissance," and many critics since have seen all of these words as misnomers in one way or another (Mitchell 2010, 641). Considered broadly as a phenomenon of Black creativity concurrent with transatlantic cultural modernism, the period is without question the most discussed in Black ... Read More
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Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew
Kirschenbaum (review)
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  Abstract: Matthew Kirschenbaum's Bitstreams arises out of the 2016 A. S. W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania, originally organized under the rubrics of "the archive", "the computer", and "the book". His thinking in this beautifully written and thoroughly researched book extends considerably beyond these guiding conceptual "fictions", as he puts it, into bibliography as "a way of knowing, a habit of mind whose remit is nothing less than accounting for all the people and things that make meaning possible, each in their own irreducible individuality" (14). He positions the book as a sequel to his work in Mechanisms (2008) on "formal" and "forensic" materiality, the way in which digital ... Read More
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