Palimpsest

Series

• Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

In the last decade, editorial theory and practice have begun to generate some of the most interesting issues and problems in the humanities. The discovery of plagiarism in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dissertation and debates over editions of James Joyce's Ulysses appeared on the front pages of newspapers. The practice of editing has challenged our conceptions both of works themselves and of the principles by which art, meaning, and tradition are constituted.

Palimpsest is the first volume to consider the impact of the new editorial work and theory on a wide range of humanistic disciplines. It assembles an extraordinarily distinguished group of leading practitioners and theorists, who examine editing in a variety of contexts: literature, music, art, history, religion, and correspondence.

Praise / Awards

• "This is a genuinely interdisciplinary collection, with few of the faults normally associated with such endeavours, and one which suggests that editorial theory could indeed form a starting-point, rather than a later refinement, in all our general approaches to literature. Overall, this sumptuously designed volume makes a persuasive case for the inextricability of all the things we do with texts: reading, editing, interpreting, translating, annotating, contextualiziing, historicising, and so forth."
  --TEXT: Transactions of The Society for Textual Scholarship, Volume 9 (1997)