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Reconfiguring the Scholarly Edition: #MLA12 #s490

An interesting discussion of the issue on scholarly editions in the age of Digital Humanities.

  1. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #MLA12 attending #s490 "reconfiguring the Scholarly Edition"
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:02:11
  2. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    Text in the capacious sense. Welcome to the future of the scholarly edition. Susan Schreibman, #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:02:29
  3. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla12 #s490 King Lear is Everest? Or Elbrus? Biggest problem is that there are 2 legit texts: one History, one Tragedy. Masses of variants.
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:04:57
  4. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla12 #s490 print editions try to either conflate or deconflate the two version of Lear.
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:07:02
  5. triproftri
    Katherine D. Harris@triproftri
    ah ha! we need a hindman collator in digital form #mla12 #s490
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:08:19
  6. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    Deconflating, conflating, paralleling, synthesizing, DIY Lear; difficult needle to thread. #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:08:22
  7. triproftri
    Katherine D. Harris@triproftri
    "what might a digital edition do?" (love this question) #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:08:43
  8. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla12 #s490 parallel text is another option, but reading parallels text is like watching a tennis match. Difficult to read.
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:08:48
  9. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    "The limits of what print can do." #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:09:08
  10. triproftri
    Katherine D. Harris@triproftri
    including an inclusive text (not editori's choice text) #s490 #mla12 - interesting term to use
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:10:18
  11. wynkenhimself
    Sarah Werner@wynkenhimself
    #mla12 #s490 Michael Best up talking about editing Lear and Hamlet and problem of multiple text Shakespeare. How to represent diffs online?
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:11:11
  12. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    The issue of capture and versioning. Intentionally difficult to read? Dynamic edition. #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:11:20
  13. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla12 #s490 Digital texts can be more eclectic. Digital technology allows for more inclusive edition, but ease of reading still challenging
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:11:30
  14. triproftri
    Katherine D. Harris@triproftri
    ...and is this project part of the big JISC/NEH grant from a few yrs ago to create a Shakespeare comparative resource? #mla12 #s490
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:11:38
  15. wynkenhimself
    Sarah Werner@wynkenhimself
    #mla12 #s490 Best's dream is to create an unstable Lear that always hovers between the Folio and Quarto texts. Love it!
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:12:06
  16. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    Reading ISE's Lear as mountain climbing. M. Best, #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:12:20
  17. triproftri
    Katherine D. Harris@triproftri
    John Bryant up next (fluid text, Melville Typee digital edition) #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:12:31
  18. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla12 #s490 Melville scholars don't use mountain metaphors. Melville critical archive: how to showcase fluidity of work?
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:14:32
  19. triproftri
    Katherine D. Harris@triproftri
    *critical archive* (Bryant): wondering how compares to @julia_flanders & ken price ideas on arsenal/thematic knowl collection #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:14:34
  20. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    The 'critical archive'; mel.hofstra.edu J. Bryant. #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:14:37
  21. peasandpoetry
    Jen Rajchel@peasandpoetry
    John Bryant says " editing is a form a critical discourse" #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:15:44
  22. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    Question seems to be how to best mediate text (dynamically for each reader). The 'textual bones' for constructing a text #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:16:15
  23. triproftri
    Katherine D. Harris@triproftri
    @dighist well, i think we need to back up and interrogate "archive." there's long been disagreement re this term #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:16:42
  24. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla12 #s490 "theory is cheap" while editorial practices are fraught with anxiety about whether to amend, which variant . . .
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:17:13
  25. djp2025
    Daniel Powell@djp2025
    Encouraging readers to become little editors in training seems to be the goal of many of these debates. #s490 #mla12
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:17:58

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