To take the editorial process as an object of study, John Bryant asserts in his book The Fluid Text: a Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen, is to reject the popular assumption “that the ‘job’ of textual scholarship … is to sift through corruption and ‘otherness’ and establish an authoritative or definitive text for common use.” He holds that in the illumination and investigation of editorial changes, “we find more than just the accidents of textual transmission; we begin to envision a fuller phenomenon, tied to historical moments but always changing and always manifesting one set of interests or another” (2002, 2). The literary edition is a fascinating site of negotiation between the interests (and perceived interests) of reader, editor, and author. These categories of reader, editor and author can further coexist in various combinations within one individual as in the case, for example, of self-censorship. We are seeking presentations that approach textual changes as evidence of these negotiations in order to gain insight into the editorial process and the cultural moments underlying them in German-language literature.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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The Role of the Editor in the Editorial Process
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The Role of the Author in the Editorial Process
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Editing Texts not Composed for Publication
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The Editorial Process and Canon Building
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| Keynote Speakers: | Dr. Bodo Plachta, Vreije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Dr. Ulrike Leuschner, Technische Universität Darmstadt | |
| Dr. Eva-Maria Kröller, University of British Columbia | |
| Dr. Siân Echard, University of British Columbia |
Organizers: Lydia Jones, Karen Roy and Dr. Gaby Pailer
Download a pdf of the call for papers: Editing2011finalCFP.
~this event is free and open to the public~
