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12 Part 1: Selected Introductory Readings � Tanselle: Introduction to Scholarly Editing (2002)
L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, "Textual Criticism," in their Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the
Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (1968, 1974, 1991), pp. 186-213.
Martin L. West, "Habent sua fata libelli," in his Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to
Greek and Latin Texts (1973), pp. 7-29.
Fredson Bowers, "Scholarship and Editing," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 70 (1976):
161-88.
[G.T. Tanselle], The Center for Scholarly Editions: An Introductory Statement (1977), pp. 1-4. Also
printed in PMLA 92 (1977): 583-97; and revised, in PMLA 100 (1985): 444-47 ("The Committee on
Scholarly Editions: Aims and Policies").
Peter L. Shillingsburg, "Theory," in his Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age (1984, 1986, 1996),
pp. 7-100 [1996].
William Proctor Williams and Craig S. Abbott, "Textual Criticism," in An Introduction to Bibliographical
and Textual Studies (1985, 1989), pp. 52-74 [1989].
David Gorman, "The Worldly Text: Writing as Social Action, Reading as Historical Reconstruction," in
Literary Theory's Future(s), ed. Joseph Natoli (1989), pp. 181-220.
James McLaverty, "Issues of Identity and Utterance: An Intentionalist Response to 'Textual Instability,'"
in Devils and Angels: Textual Editing and Literary Theory, ed. Philip Cohen (1991), pp. 134-51.
Peter L. Shillingsburg, "Text as Matter, Concept, and Action," Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 31-82.
Reprinted in his Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (1997),
pp. 49-103.
D.C. Greetham, "Textual Scholarship," in Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and
Literatures, ed. Joseph Gibaldi (2nd ed., 1992), pp. 103-37.
D.C. Greetham, "Editing the Text: Scholarly Editing," in Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (1992), pp.
347-72.
G.T. Tanselle, "Textual Criticism," in The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex
Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan (1993), pp. 1273-76.
Peter L. Shillingsburg, "Is There Anything to 'Get Straight'?" and "Individual and Collective Voices:
Agency in Texts," in his Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning
(1997), pp. 1-12, 151-64.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "Editing the Interface: Textual Studies and First Generation Electronic
Objects," Text 14 (2002): 15-51.
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C. The Problem of Copy-Text
W.W. Greg, "The Rationale of Copy-Text," Studies in Bibliography 3 (1950-51): 19-36. Reprinted in his
Collected Papers, ed. J.C. Maxwell (1966), pp. 374-91; and in Sir Walter Wilson Greg: A Collection
of His Writings, ed. Joseph Rosenblum (1998), pp. 213-28. Also reprinted in Bibliography and
Textual Criticism, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Warner Barnes (1969), pp. 41-58; and Art and Error:
Modern Textual Editing, ed. Ronald Gottesman and Scott Bennett (1970), pp. 17-36.
Fredson Bowers, "Multiple Authority: New Problems and Concepts of Copy-Text," Library 5th ser. 27
(1972): 81-115. Reprinted in his Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing (1975), pp. 447-87.
G.T. Tanselle, "Editing without a Copy-Text," Studies in Bibliography 47 (1994): 1-22. Reprinted in his
Literature and Artifacts (1998), pp. 236-57.
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