This book is the first to address the entire spectrum of textual scholarship: enumerative and research bibliography; descriptive and analytical bibliography ; paleography and typography; historical and textual bibliography; textual criticism and textual theory; scholarly editing…
This book is the first to address the entire spectrum of textual scholarship: enumerative and research bibliography; descriptive and analytical bibliography ; paleography and typography; historical and textual bibliography; textual criticism and textual theory; scholarly editing…
"How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits - and the accomplishments - of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics." "Regarding the dossier of suc…
How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits-and the accomplishments-of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics.Sean Alexander Gurd takes as his sta…
"How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits - and the accomplishments - of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics." "Regarding the dossier of suc…
"The scraps of hard evidence are carefully shifted from the putative so as to uncover the probable extent and nature of interpolation in Thucydides. This gives a coarse but firm 'typology, ' which may be of some use in the study of other MS traditions, and clarifies hard passage…