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ENGL 501 A: Textual Theory

Textual Studies (w/Comp Lit 551)

Meeting Time: 
T 12:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: 
PDL C242
SLN: 
22836
Joint Sections: 
C LIT 551 A, FRENCH 551 A
Instructor: 
Geoffrey Turnovsky

Additional Details:

This course offers an overview of historical and recent thinking about  the “text,” considered as an object of literary and cultural analysis and in light of the text’s materialization, circulation, and reception. We’ll consider historical roots of textual theory in humanism, philology, and 19th-century literary studies; early 20th-century textual criticism and bibliography; formalist notions of aesthetic autonomy and post-structuralist critiques of authorial intention and meaning; book history and the material text; the question of publication and the sociology of texts; readers and publics; networks, media and the role of technology; and new understandings of the text entailed by digitization.
The course counts as the required introduction to the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies.

Catalog Description: 
Provides an introduction to the intellectual foundations of textual studies; historical background in disciplines of philology and textual criticism, theories of textuality from formalism and New Criticism to poststructuralism, and media-specific analysis; current and emerging concerns in the history of the book, media studies, globally comparative philologies, and digital humanities. Offered: jointly with C LIT 551.
Credits: 
5.0
Status: 
Active
Last updated: 
August 2, 2019 - 9:21pm
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