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The history of editions allows one to register the different concepts underlying the presentation of the work and thus decisively affecting its reception. At the same time, the historical view reveals the influences to which the editions were subjected as a result of their academic or contemporary context. The interdisciplinary book series Elements of a History of Editing aims to heighten the awareness of these interrelations.
This volume portrays the practice of Old German textual criticism from its beginnings in the 19th century to the early 20th century, examining the most important editions and personalities from the discipline’s history and presenting its methodological development alongside detailed analyses of methods and problem-solving strategies. The volume closes with an outlook on the various research controversies and the impact of editorial approaches.
For the first time, this book systematically presents the rich history of music publishing. It presents chronological summaries of the editorial histories of the works of many composers, from the Notre Dame School to Hanns Eisler, offers insight on the editorial principles of each period, and presents the development of music publications in a historical context.
This volume presents a history of academic literary publishing in Scandinavian languages from the Middle Ages to the present time, with a focus on the publication of more recent literature and historical lines of connection. Historical review essays from an academic perspective, together with case studies about key editorial projects, offer an introduction to Scandinavian edition philology for the international public.
As a continuation of the first and second volumes of the series, this volume focuses on editors in the field of new German studies in a scholarly context. The scholarly-biographical perspective offers new insights into the origin and development of an edition or an edition process. The book discusses the professional institutionalization of a scholar, his/her position in literary studies (e.g. if he/she belongs to a ‘school’), and then goes on to explore the general circumstances of the times or other biographical relationships. Editors from the beginning of the 19th century to the late 20th century serve as examples.
The volume assembles 21 contributions in handbook format on editing practice in connection with largely literary German-language authors. It also gives an outline of the history of electronic editing. With reference to the general history of German-language editing practice, the individual longitudinal surveys provide both guidance to the editorial landscape pertaining to the respective author and links with historical and present-day approaches to scholarly editing. Accordingly, the contributions can be regarded as building blocks for a large-scale history of editing.
The volume indicates cardinal theoretical and practical concerns conducive to an awareness of the specific factors involved in producing scholarly editions of literary works in modern German. It contains (either in full or as extracts) editors' prefaces, articles, and monographs dating from the period between the 18th century and 1970. As such it provides a documentary overview of the history of scholarly editions of works in modern German. An Introduction indicates the way in which these documents coalesce to provide a representative outline of the historical development in this field.