Eggert, Paul. The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x, 242 pp. $99.99. Hardcover with Jacket (ISBN: 978-1-1086-4101-2).

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-381
Author(s):  
Anna Muenchrath
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Scholarly Editing

scholarly journals Take this Work Global

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cornelius (39–49)
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
General Program ◽  
Scholarly Editing

Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History elaborates a general program for the study of literature centered on the question, “What is the thing read?” Concepts of document, text, and work are parsed with care, generating many valuable insights and clarifications, but there is need for more thinking about the linguistic medium of literature. To textual studies, bibliography, and book history — the trio of foundational disciplines advocated by Eggert — one should add philology, or the study of literary language.

scholarly journals A Wandering Hyphen, The Reader and the Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Eggert (65–84)
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Regulative Idea ◽  
Negative Dialectic ◽  
Scholarly Editing ◽  
Role Of The Reader ◽  
The Relationship

This is a reply to commentary by Matt Cohen, Ian Cornelius, and Alan Galey occasioned by the publication of Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and to a review of the book by John K. Young. A theory of the work based on the negative dialectic of document and text grounds the work as a regulative idea rather than an ideal entity and finds the role of the reader to be constitutive of it. The relationship (envisaged in the book as a slider) of archival and editorial digital projects, the potential cross-fertilization of philology and textual criticism, and an expanded role for textual studies inspired by D. F. McKenzie’s writings are discussed.

Medieval Manuscripts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Book History ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Manuscript Culture ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
British And Irish Literature ◽  
Textual Culture

Scholars studying medieval manuscripts work in a variety of disciplines, from literary atudies to history to linguistics to art history to classics. Publications in all these areas use manuscripts and offer important findings about medieval manuscripts. In addition to its practice within different fields, much of the study of medieval manuscripts is strongly interdisciplinary, using techniques native to the study of the medieval book like codicology and paleography, alongside text critical-methods originally developed in classics and refined there, in literary studies and in history, visual analysis pioneered in art history, and philological methods now found in literary studies and linguistics. Insofar as the study of medieval manuscripts has a unified goal, it is to describe and explain the production and use of manuscripts and the textual culture associated with them, generating primary data that assists in the writing of literary, cultural, and linguistic history. Given the breadth of the field, this Oxford Bibliographies entry must necessarily be selective. It focuses primarily on manuscripts of British and Irish literature in English (manuscripts of texts in Irish, Welsh, and other Celtic languages being specialist fields of study in their own right). As a consequence, the vast majority of the material listed is in English, though scholarship on medieval manuscripts is also published in French, Italian, and German, as well as other languages. After sections devoted to General Overviews, Reference Works, Textbooks, Anthologies, Bibliographies and Journals, the bibliography presents lists of Catalogues of Manuscripts and Facsimiles, which are two of the most important tools for medieval book historians. It finishes with lists of works relevant to the major subdisciplines of medieval book history, Codicology (the study of the physical structure of manuscripts); paleography, the study of Scripts used in those manuscripts; as well as studies of Scribal Practice and Manuscript Culture; and works concerned with Ownership and Provenance.

Religion and Representation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Rzepa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Book History ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This review is divided into three sections: 1. Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914; 2. Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy; 3. ‘Translation and Religion: Crafting Regimes of Identity’, a thematic issue of Religion edited by Hephzibah Israel and Matthias Frenz. Taken together, these works provide an overview of approaches that demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary research into religion and representation. Drawing on the disciplines of social, political, and cultural history, literary studies, book history, theology, religious studies, translation studies, and postcolonial studies, they highlight the importance of research that contextualizes the relationship between religion and representation, bringing attention to its historically overlooked aspects.

scholarly journals Seeing through the Concept of World Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Book History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Conceptual Thinking ◽  
Literary Geography

Abstract Less concerned with the concept of World Literature than with the promise and perils of conceptualization, this essay considers what experiencing some forms of writing as world literature might involve. Using J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country (1977) as an illustrative example, it addresses questions of circulation, translation, writing systems, book history, and literary geography in the context of recent academic debates about world literary studies. It concludes by revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s landmark 1907 essay “World Literature,” arguing that it remains an indispensable guide to experiential reading and anti-conceptual thinking.

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