9781108485746

The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781108485746

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Overview

By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the work has broadened the concept, extending it historically and sweeping away its once-supposed aesthetic objecthood. Concurrently, the advent of digital scholarly editions is recasting the editorial endeavour. The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies tests its argument against a range of book-historically inflected case-studies from Hamlet editions to Romantic poetry archives to the writing practices of Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence. It newly justifies the practice of close reading in the digital age.

ISBN-13

9781108485746

ISBN-10

110848574X

Weight

1.19 Pounds

Dimensions

6.50 x 0.75 x 9.50 In

List Price

$108.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

250 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2019-08-29



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