Texts, Editors, and Readers

Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism

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ID19940955
AuthorsRichard Tarrant (Harvard University Press, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-02-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueTexts, Editors, and Readers (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511805165
OpenAlexW4237126746
Open LibraryOL27453411M
ISBN9780511805165
LanguageEN
Citations received27

This book re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and its prospects for the future in a digital environment. Each stage of the editorial process is examined, from gathering and evaluating manuscript evidence to constructing the text and critical apparatus, with particular attention given to areas of dispute, such as the role of conjecture. The importance of subjective factors at every point is highlighted. An Appendix offers practical guidance in reading a critical apparatus. The discussion is framed in a way that is accessible to non-specialists, with all Latin texts translated. The book will be useful both to classicists who are not textual critics and to non-classicists interested in issues of editing

Art · Critical reading · Criticism · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Literature · Point (geometry) · Political science · Process (computing) · Reading (process) · Scholarship · Sociology · Textual criticism · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · History and criticism · Latein · Latin literature · Literatur · Textkritik

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