The book shows, through sixteen stimulating contributions, the research itinerary of a scholar, critic and editor who has had a profound impact on the recent history of textual studies. Written in Gabler’s clear and fluent style, the book is addressed to the community of critics, editors, students and scholars of Editing and Literature (with a focus on two key authors of the Modernism: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf), in order to respond to a series of notional and practical issues on genetic criticism, on its application to the digital environment, on the compositional and structural analysis of a text and on its methodological implications. The arguments range from the critique génétique to the Digital Humanities, from the book design to the cultural canonization of the literary works. This volume ultimately affirms itself as an important contribution in this field of studies and it responds in an innovative and ambitious way to the necessity to strengthen the dialogue between the study of texts and the digital world.
Carolina Rossi
"H. W. Gabler, Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays, OpenBook Publishers (2018)". Umanistica Digitale (2532-8816), vol. 3, no. 5, 2019. doi:10.6092/issn.2532-8816/9421
1. The Rocky Road to Ulysses
2. ‘He chronicled with patience’: Early Joycean Progressions Between Non-Fiction and Fiction
3. James Joyce Interpreneur
4. Structures of Memory and Orientation: Steering a Course Through Wandering Rocks
5. Editing Text—Editing Work
6. Theorizing the Digital Scholarly Edition
7. Thoughts on Scholarly Editing
8. Beyond Author-Centricity in Scholarly Editing
9. Sourcing and Editing Shakespeare: The Bibliographical Fallacy
10. The Draft Manuscript as Material Foundation for Genetic Editing and Genetic Criticism
11. A Tale of Two Texts: Or, How One Might Edit Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
12. Auto-Palimpsests: Virginia Woolf’s Late Drafting of Her Early Life
13. From Memory to Fiction: An Essay in Genetic Criticism
14. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Two-Choir Passion
15. Argument into Design: Editions as a Sub-Species of the Printed Book
16. Cultural versus Editorial Canonising: The Cases of Shakespeare, of Joyce
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Index