Book practices & textual itineraries
Subtitle: tracing the contours of literary works
By: general editors, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Monica Latham & David Ten Eyck
Series: Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone; Collection Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Nancy
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nancy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9782814300767
Subjects: Books and reading; Commonwealth literature (English); History and criticism; Theory; Textual Criticism
Other titles: Book practices and textual itineraries; Book practices and textual itineraries
Description: "The essays in this volume draw upon recent debates in the fields of textual scholarship and book history to argue for a more flexible understanding of what constitutes a literary work. Each contributor, while working from different perspectives, draws attention to the impossibility of establishing any clearly delineated space within which such works can be said to exist. AII of the essays engage with cases that challenge our assumptions about how literary works should be defined, be it through re-edition in varying forms, in varying contexts, with varying paratextual features; through character migration between texts, and even between media; or through the presence of multiple authorised versions. The title of the volume, 'Tracing the Contours of Literary Works', acknowledges the continuing relevance of distinctions between literary and non-literary works while simultaneously drawing attention to the care that critics must exercise in defining the objects of his or her study. It suggests that the outlines we trace around the space 'belonging' to any given literary work must always be provisional, fluid, perhaps multiple, since no work can be reduced to a single, authoritative textual state"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The novel as book :; title: Mark Z. Danielewski's recuperation of the codex format  -- Grzegorz Maziarczyk; title: Combe and Rowlandson's Dr. Syntax, Pierce Egan's Life in London, and the illustrated character as a form of literary property  -- Susan Pickford; title: Book, work and text :; title: from material book history to new literary theories  -- Simon Frost; title: The lives of a book :; title: The conjure woman through the ages  -- Cécile Cottenet; title: On reading King Lear  -- Lukas Erne; title: A story of gains and losses :; title: the early editions of Smollett's Roderick random  -- Pierre Degott; title: The unfortunate life of Robert Chester's Loves martyr  -- Boris Drenkov; title: The Pilgrim's progresses of Bunyan's publishers and illustrators, or the role of illustrations in the life of a text/book  -- Nathalie Collé-Bak; title: The visual 'life' of James Thomson's The seasons, 1730-c. 1800 -- Sandro Jung.