The Book Unbound
Subtitle: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Contributors: Si?n Echard (Editor); Stephen Partridge (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: December 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780802087560
Subjects: Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter; Literary Criticism; Editing; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Medieval; Manuscripts, Medieval; Books & Reading; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; Criticism, Textual; Editing & Proofreading; Literature, Medieval
First sentence: A comparison between two approaches to editing and textual criticism, John J. Thompson's Cursor Mundi: Poem, Texts and Contexts, and Sarah M. Horrall's newly completed Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, sheds some interesting light on the implications of postmodern and traditional attitudes - and throws up some significant paradoxes.