Journal article
Why do authors produce textual variation on purpose? Or, why publish a text that is still unfolding?
- Abstract:
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Post-publication revision causes problems for both an AngloAmerican editorial tradition and genetic critics. Discussion of variance in Shakespeare, Henry James, T. S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath shows that publication is only as much of an event as an author makes it. It need not entail a neat breach between genesis and transmission. Using WitgensteinȂs notion of ȃseeing asȄ, I propose that ȃin processȄ ǻstill being composedǼ and ȃinishedȄ ǻready for transmissionǼ are aspects of textual apprehens...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- European Society for Textual Scholarship Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Variants Journal website
- Issue:
- 12-13
- Pages:
- 77-103
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-01
- EISSN:
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1879-6095
- ISSN:
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1573-3084
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pubs:708863
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- pubs:708863
- Source identifiers:
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708863
- Deposit date:
- 2017-07-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Sullivan, H
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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