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The Production of Literary Research Sources. Critic’s Tools: Literary Evidence. Use to determine or support the truth of a claim. Emily Dickinson. Did Dickinson’s seclusion from society inform her poetry?. Possible Supporting Evidence. Correspondence Biographies Poems Critics’ analyses - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Production of Literary Research Sources
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Critic’s Tools: Literary Evidence
Use to determine or support the truth of a claim.
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Emily Dickinson
Did Dickinson’s seclusion from society inform her poetry?
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Possible Supporting Evidence
Correspondence Biographies Poems Critics’ analyses OED
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Post-Postmodern Literary Evidence
Text messages YouTube Tweets Email Digital Archives Poetry slams Blogs
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Categories of Literary Evidence
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
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Primary Sources of Literary Evidence
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Secondary Sources of Literary Evidence
Critical articles Book reviews Biographies Dissertations Conference Papers
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Secondary SourcesCritical Analysis: Catherine Golden’s article: “Marking Her Territory: Feline Behavior in "The Yellow Wall-Paper,” published in the periodical American Literary Realism, 2008.
Book ReviewJanet Beer’s review of Golden’s boo: The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman appeared in the October 1, 2002 issue of Modern Language Review
BiographyAnn J. Lane’s To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published by University of Virginia Press in 1997.
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Tertiary Sources of Literary Evidence
Literary dictionaries Encyclopedias Spark Notes OED
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Tertiary Sources: Examples
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Flow of Literary Evidence
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Image: The Forerunner
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Flow of Evidence: “Yellow Wall-Paper”
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Unpublished Manuscripts
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Primary Sources: Types of Editions
Facsimile Variorum Authoritative/Definitive Mass market/trade E-text
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Authoritative Editions
The authoritative edition is a fundamental tool in literary studies.
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Authoritative Editions
The reader is given what the author intended.
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Authoritative Editions
The purpose of a scholarly edition is to present a reliable text.
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Authoritative Editions
Critics and scholars victims of incompetent editors, proof-correctors, and publishers.
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Editor’s Misreading of Robert Southwell’s Letter to Samuel Pepys
Authoritative edition: [I] lost my health by sitting many years near an inck bottle.”
Unreliable edition: “[I] lost my health by sitting many years near a sack bottle.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Corrupted Editions
box becomes fox cottage becomes cabbage
bloody becomes beastlybugger becomes beggar
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A.L. Rowse’s Corrupted Text of Romeo & Juliet
Authoritative Shakespeare edition: “ Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo”
Rowse’s edition: “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore are you, Romeo”
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Expurgated Texts: Sniffing Out the Smut
Richard Wright’s Native SonJonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsChaucer’s Wife of Bath
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Corruption of a Text: YWP
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YWP: Corruption of the text
Reliable ed. : John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
Unreliable ed.: 1 John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that.
Unreliable ed.: 2 John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in men.
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Yellow Wall-Paper: Corrupted Section Breaks
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“Yellow Wall-Paper”: Publication History
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How do I know my text is authoritative?
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The best way to determine the authority of an edition is to read professional reviews of the edition.
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Editor’s choice of the copy-text determines the reliability of an edition.
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Julie Dock’s copy text for the YWP: The New England Magazine in January, 1892.
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Authoritative Editions
Explain the method used in determining the copy-text on which the edition is based.
Cleanse text of corruptions
Place text in historical context
Discuss conventions, styles, traditions
Using sound textual principles, scholarly editors:
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Current Authoritative Editions
Uncollected primary works Recent scholarship
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Summary
Three types of literary sources (primary, secondary, tertiary)
Creative works (e.g. novels) generate the flow of scholarly information.
Five types of literary editions (Facsimile, Variorum Authoritative, Mass market/trade, E-text)
Authoritative editions are crucial to critical interpretations
Locate authoritative editions through scholarly book reviews.
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Types of Literary Scholarship
Journal articles Conference papers Essays Books Dissertations
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Who Writes Literary Scholarship?
Professors Graduate students Independent scholars