The Becoming of the Scholarly Editor Reading Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies

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Published: Aug 9, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v14i1.32825

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Matt Cohen
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Abstract

Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies makes an important intervention in textual scholarship by redefining scholarly editions as functions of a process enacted in dynamic relation to an idea of a work on one hand and imagined readers — including the author as a first reader of drafts — on the other. This essay responds to The Work and the Reader by pursuing the definition of the “reader” toward a rethinking of edition-making as both a material and an ethical practice.

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021): Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation
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Theoretical Case-Study: Paul Eggert's The Work and The Reader

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