Authors: D. C. Greetham
ISBN-13: 9780198119937, ISBN-10: 0198119933
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: July 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Theories of the Text is the first comprehensive account of the changing practice of bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing in the light of the diverse currents of contemporary critical theory. It offers both a much-needed introduction to the history of textual debate and a timely account of the current hotly contested debates over such issues as authorial intention, textual organicism, the socialization of the text, and intertextuality. Despite the positivist tradition of textual scholarship, D. C. Greetham argues, such work is a hermeneutic activity taking place within certain (usually unacknowledged) social and cultural conceptual constraints.
List of Figures | ||
Introduction: Textual Theory and the Territorial Metaphor | 1 | |
1 | Ontology: Being in the Text | 26 |
2 | The History of the Text | 64 |
3 | The Forms of the Text: Formalism, Modernism, and Beyond | 126 |
4 | Intention in the Text | 157 |
5 | The Phenomenology and Reading of the Text | 206 |
6 | The Psychoanalysis of Texts | 245 |
7 | Structure and Sign in the Text: Structuralism and Semiotics | 276 |
8 | The Deconstruction of the Text: [Textual] Criticism and Deconstruction: Supplement | 326 |
9 | Society and Culture in the Text | 367 |
a | Text as Social Ideology | 367 |
b | Marxist Textuality | 377 |
c | Social Textual Criticism | 397 |
d | Cultural Studies and the Text | 419 |
10 | Gender in the Text | 433 |
Bibliography | 487 | |
Indexes | 541 |