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The Power Of Positivist Babble Or, Two Anecdotes Declining Toward A Conclusion: Review Of Literary & Historical Editing. Edited And With Introductions By George L. Vogt And John Bush Jones., Jon Kukla
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
The seven components of Literary & Historical Editing are three introductory pieces (two by the editors and the third, a survey of modern literary and historical editions, by James Thorpe), essays by George C. Rogers, Jr., and G. Thomas Tanselle on textual editing, and two discussions of annotation. Martin C. Battestin's suggestions about literary annotation-which have also been published in volume 34 of Studies in Bibliography (1981)struck me as sensible and clear, especially if one may accept at face value his disclaimers: that he is not"trying to do for the literary annotator what Greg has done for the textual editor,» …
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 2, May 1982.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 2, May 1982.
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
No abstract provided.
Interpretation In Editing: The Gallatin Papers, Barbara Oberg
Interpretation In Editing: The Gallatin Papers, Barbara Oberg
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
I think I will plunge right in, and propose that not only is interpretive editing all that we can do, not only is it proper, but that it is the best chance we have of producing works of history which will stand as classics of historical writing. I want to use as an example of a good, classic, interpretive, edition of correspondence and published writings, Henry Adams's three-volume edition of Writings of Albert Gallatin. This is the edition of Gallatin's writings which scholars now have, and which they had for about the last century. In 1877 Henry Adams was engaged …
In Response To Reagor, John Y. Simmon
In Response To Reagor, John Y. Simmon
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
In urging us to rethink the issue of federal financial support for historical editing down to the fundamental level of what deserves this support and why, Ms. Reagor has done us all a favor. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has a long prehistory dating back to the seminal thought of J. Franklin Jameson; a period of good intentions and inactivity (1934-50); the age of Jefferson-or of Julian P. Boyd-(1950-64); expanded powers with the addition of grant funding (1964- 75); and finally, a bifurcated role with the addition of a records program to its initial mandate. Throughout, there has …
Historical Editing: The Federal Role, Simone Reagor
Historical Editing: The Federal Role, Simone Reagor
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
When I began work on this paper, I started from the assumption that I would discover a range of arguments to justify continued federal funding for documentary editing through the powers of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission structured much as we have come to know it. My effort to think through this question has, instead, brought me to quite another position. Whatever options we may now have about federal funding, I no longer believe that we should replicate what we have had before. I do not believe it is wise to continue funding for historical editing through the …
Review Of Journal (Volume I: 1837-1844) By Henry D. Thoreau; Edited By John C. Broderick, Elizabeth Hall Witherell, William L. Howarth, Robert Sattelmeyer, And Thomas Blanding., Philip F. Gura
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
The recent appearance from Princeton University Press of the first volume (1837-1844) of Thoreau's massive Journal is a signal event for scholars of American literature, and any who doubt the fact need only read the editors' "General Introduction" (intended as a prefatory statement to the entire publication project) to learn why. The tale told therein of Thoreau's friends' and previous editors' conscious and unconscious alterations of his text recalls the ill treatment afforded another classic American writer at the hands of her friends and editors. Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Martha Dickinson Bianchi perhaps did Emily Dickinson's readers …
Letters To The Editor--September 1982, Fredson Bowers
Letters To The Editor--September 1982, Fredson Bowers
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
In the May 1982 Newsletter, p. 9, I was happy to see Joel Myerson's notice of my system for transcribing manuscripts (Studies in Bibliography 29 [1976]: 212-264). I should like to add a few comments on what I take to be the peculiar virtues of this system as against the so-called genetic-text system using various symbols, not all of which are agreed upon by editors and which strain a lay reader's memory if my own difficulty in reading such texts is any guide.
Microform Editions Of Documentary Collections: Where Do We Stand? And Where Do We Go From Here?, Thomas E. Jeffrey
Microform Editions Of Documentary Collections: Where Do We Stand? And Where Do We Go From Here?, Thomas E. Jeffrey
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
The following essay is intended to serve as a brief introduction to the world of scholarly micro-publishing. It will begin with a discussion of commercial micro-publishers and the contributions they can make towards the publication of a high-quality microform edition. It will also allude to some recent developments in the micro-publication of documentary collections, such as comprehensive microfiche editions and microfiche supplements to printed books, computer-generated microfiche, and selective (rather than comprehensive) microform editions. The essay will not include a technical discussion of microforms or a step-by-step description of how to prepare a collection of documents for filming. Information about …
Review Of Selected Works Of Jawaharlal Nehru: An Introduction, Lakshman Dewani
Review Of Selected Works Of Jawaharlal Nehru: An Introduction, Lakshman Dewani
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
The publication of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru was undertaken by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi in 1968. The object was to help build a corpus of Nehru's writings and speeches on a variety of subjects which span over a period of fifty years of active political life of one of this century's foremost public leaders and statesmen. It was a stupendous task to collect his writings from various sources, ranging from government archives to private individuals. The task was, however, made less difficult by the availability of a large number of Nehru's letters and other …
The "Authentic" Witness: The Editor Speaks For The Document, Wayne Cutler
The "Authentic" Witness: The Editor Speaks For The Document, Wayne Cutler
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
For several years now literary and historical editors have been "talking shop" in their attempt to isolate what, if anything, they share of a common editorial method. Regrettably, the more we have talked the more defensive our thinking has become. David J. Nordloh's essay in the May 1980 issue of the ADE Newsletter, "The 'Perfect' Text: The Editor Speaks for the Author," demonstrated to my chagrin the occasional depths of our mutual misunderstandings. Hoping that subsequent commentary would obviate the need for my making a self-pleading rejoinder, I have postponed the present answer for some eighteen months. The ADE Newsletter …
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 1, February 1982.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 1, February 1982.
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text. Edited By J. A. Leo Lemay And P. M. Zall., Joel Myserson
Review Of The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text. Edited By J. A. Leo Lemay And P. M. Zall., Joel Myserson
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
There is rarely unanimity of opinion about how manuscripts should be edited. Some argue for a literati m transcription, others for silent emendations made for reader utility. But what of texts where the process of composition is as important as the finished product? The editors of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic . Text have had to face this question, and their solution will be of use to us all.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 3, September 1982.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 3, September 1982.
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
No abstract provided.
Letter To The Editor--December 1982, Douglas Emory Wilson
Letter To The Editor--December 1982, Douglas Emory Wilson
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
Two items in the September 1982 Newsletter deal with matters I should like to comment on: Philip F. Gura's review of the Thoreau Journal, Vol. I, in which he compares the editorial methods of that edition with those of the Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks UMN); and Fredson Bowers' letter to the Editor, commenting on differences between the systems used to record manuscript alterations (or to present a genetic text) in the Emerson JMN and in Professor Bowers' editions of William James and others.
The Library Of America, Jo Ann Boydston
The Library Of America, Jo Ann Boydston
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
The spring 1982 publication of the first four volumes of The Library of America (Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman) inaugurated a series that is expected to produce and keep permanently in print more than one hundred volumes. Four more volumes (Mark Twain, Howells, and two of Jack London) will have appeared by the time this account is published. These volumes are the initial concrete expression of a movement dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s to collect, preserve, publish, and disseminate widely the best texts of classic American writings.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 4, December 1982.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 4, December 1982.
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
No abstract provided.
Black Elk Speaks As Epic And Ritual Attempt To Reverse History, Paul Olson
Black Elk Speaks As Epic And Ritual Attempt To Reverse History, Paul Olson
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Modern Siouan storytellers make a distinction in speaking of the difference between bedtime and sacred stories. Moreover, Lakota masters of the sacred arts are inveterate constructors of figural or allegorical systems. They interpret, apply, and reapply the iconological resources of their culture through ritual, myth, storytelling, symbolic action, and clothing. This Sioux symbolic tradition is one context in which John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks (1932) must be understood. Conceptualizing it as an epic may assist both Western and non-Western readers to clarify the uses to which a culture's symbol system may be put in mediating conflicting values, especially those …