The pleasures of contamination
Subtitle: evidence, fact, and voice in textual studies
By: David Greetham.
Series: Textual cultures: theory and praxis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780253355065; 9780253222169
Subjects: Criticism, Textual; Intertextuality; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: truthiness in an age of contamination; title: Part 1. The contamination of evidence: The resistance to philology; Contamination and/of resistance; Textual forensics; Facts, truefacts, factoids, or, why are they still saying those things about epistemology?; title: Part 2. The contamination of text: Who's in, who's out: the cultural poetics of archival exclusion; Phylum-tree-rhizome; Is it morphin time?; title: Part 3. The contamination of voice: "what does it matter who is speaking," someone said, "what does it matter who is speaking?": Romancing the text, medievalizing the book; The philosophical discourse of [textuality]; The telephone directory and Dr. Seuss: scholarly editing after Feist v. Rural telephone; title: Epilogue: the limits of contamination.