Textuality and Knowledge: Essays

by Peter Shillingsburg

Book Overview

In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship.

Through thirteen essays, Shillingsburg argues that literary study depends on documents, the preservation of works, and textual replication, and he traces how this proposition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271081074
• ISBN13: 9780271081076
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"