Text Editing, Print and the Digital World (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)

Traditional critical editing, defined by the paper and print limitations of the book, is now considered by many to be inadequate for the expression and interpretation of complex works of literature. At the same time, digital developments are permitting us to extend the range of text objects we can reproduce and investigate critically - not just books, but newspapers, draft manuscripts and inscriptions on stone. Some exponents of the benefits of new information technologies argue that in future all editions should be produced in digital or online form. By contrast, others point to the fact that print, after more than five hundred years of development, continues to set the agenda for how we think about text, even in its non-print forms. This important book brings together leading textual critics, scholarly editors, technical specialists and publishers to discuss whether and how existing paradigms for developing and using critical editions are changing to reflect the increased commitment to and assumed significance of digital tools and methodologies.--Amazon.com Being Critical : Paper-based Editing And The Digital Environment / Kathryn Sutherland -- The Compleat Edition / Mats Dahlström -- Digital Editions And Text Processing / Dino Buzzetti -- The Book, The E-text And The 'work-site' / Paul Eggert -- Open Source Critical Editions : A Rationale / Gabriel Bodard And Juan Garcés -- Every Reader His Own Bibliographer : An Absurdity? / Edward Vanhoutte -- '...they Hid Their Books Underground' / Espen S. Ore -- The Cambridge Edition Of The Works Of Jonathan Swift And The Future Of The Scholarly Edition / Linda Bree And James Mclaverty -- Editions And Archives : Textual Editing And The Nineteenth-century Serials Edition (ncse) / James Mussell And Suzanne Paylor -- Digitizing Inscribed Texts / Charlotte Roueché -- Digital Genetic Editions : The Encoding Of Time In Manuscript Transcription / Elena Pierazzo. Edited By Marilyn Deegan, Kathryn Sutherland. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [187]-198) And Index. Being critical : paper-based editing and the digital environment / Kathryn Sutherland The compleat edition / Mats Dahlstrom Digital editions and text processing / Dino Buzzetti The book, the e-text, and the "work-site" / Paul Eggert Open source critical editions : a rationale / Gabriel Bodard and Juan Garcés Every reader his own bibliographer : an absurdity? / Edward Vanhoutte They hid their books underground / Espen Ore The Cambridge edition of the works of Jonathan Swift and the future of the scholarly edition / Linda Bree and James McLaverty Editions and archives : textual editing and The nineteenth-century serials edition (ncse) / Jim Mussell and Suzanne Paylor Digitizing inscribed texts / Charlotte Roueché Digital genetic editions : the encoding of time in manuscript transcription / Elena Pierazzo. Digital developments have extended the range of text objects we can reproduce and investigate critically. Should all future texts be produced in digital or online form, or does print, developed over five centuries, still influence how we think about text in all its forms? This important book discusses whether, and how, existing paradigms for developing and using critical editions are changing to to reflect the increased commitment to, and assumed significance of, digital tools and methodologies