Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays - cover image

Copyright

Hans Walter Gabler

Published On

2018-02-20

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-363-6
Hardback978-1-78374-364-3
PDF978-1-78374-365-0
HTML978-1-80064-539-4
XML978-1-78374-487-9
EPUB978-1-78374-366-7
MOBI978-1-78374-367-4

Language

  • English

Print Length

410 pages (vi + 404)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 21 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.84" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 24 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.94" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1270g (44.80oz)
Hardback1660g (58.55oz)

Media

Illustrations46

OCLC Number

1042278328

LCCN

2019452730

BIC

  • DS
  • DSK
  • U

BISAC

  • LIT024000
  • LIT004130
  • COM087000

LCC

  • P47

Keywords

  • textual criticism
  • genetic criticism
  • literary criticism
  • composition
  • canonisation
  • book design
  • digital scholarly editing

Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays

  • Hans Walter Gabler (author)
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent in exploration of textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature as well as music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the societal processes of the canonisation of works of literature and their authors.

Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the development of concerns voiced in the community of critics and scholars. Gabler responds innovatively to the issues involved and often endeavours to re-think their urgencies through allowing orthodox tenets of national schools of textual criticism to converge and merge. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of scholarly editing in the digital age.

Written in Gabler’s fluent style, these rich and elegant compositions are essential reading for literary and textual critics, scholarly editors, readers of James Joyce, New Modernism specialists, and all those interested in textual scholarship and digital editing within the encompassing framework of Digital Humanities.

Reviews

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

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Contents

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Foreword

(pp. 1–10)
  • Hans Walter Gabler

Contributors

Hans Walter Gabler

(author)
Professor of English Literature and Editorial Scholarship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Hans Walter Gabler is Professor (retired) of English Literature and Editorial Scholarship at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University, Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and Honorary Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. He undertook, as editor-in-chief, the Critical and Synoptic Edition of James Joyce's Ulysses (1984), and the critical editions of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners (both 1993). In Munich from 1996 to 2002, he directed an interdisciplinary graduate programme on “Textual Criticism as Foundation and Method of the Historical Disciplines.” From 2008 to 2010, he was Chair of the ESF-COST Action A32, "Open Scholarly Communities on the Web," and between 2014 and 2016 served as coordinator of a transatlantic research project “Diachronic Markup and Presentation Practices for Text Edition in Digital Research Environments”. Through his research on writing processes he seeks to advance theory and practice of the digital scholarly edition in a Digital Humanities environment. Editorial theory, genetic digital editing and genetic criticism have become the main focus of his professional writing.