ENGL371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Shelley
8 Sep 2016
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Focusing on the materiality of texts, books as objects. Looking at the composition process of mary shelly in her original script. Looking at books at editors rather than readers and interpreters. What is editing: correcting a body of work, organization, footnotes (explanation, aid, authorial intent, curation (inclusion and exclusion, relationship between editing and translation. Translation or modernization: presentation, consistency, content and structural details, fact checking, censorship, which is more important, the content in its original form or presenting the work to a modern audience? (e. x. Huckleberry finn controversy: how do you know what you"re reading? (authenticity of works) Authorial editing (revision): author editing her or his own work. Literary editing: hired by publisher to work with authors.
