Text and Context: Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century - an
A.H.R.B. funded Postgraduate Student Conference.
This postgraduate conference is the centrepiece of a two-year
AHRB-funded collaborative research training framework for postgraduate
students of English at the University of Leicester, De Montfort
University, Loughborough University and Nottingham Trent University.
The scope of the conference is broad, considering aspects of the
following:
Literary-critical approaches to the production of text
Historical / Art-Historical approaches to the production of text
The relation of literary and/or cultural theory to the production of text
The theory of textual editing The materiality of texts,
including the issues of copying and circulation,
and the relation of material design to meaning
The archiving of text, including images, and its presentation to the
public
The influence of authors, readers, patrons, scribes, editors, publishers
and literary executors on the production of texts
The process of making and presenting scholarly discoveries, in relation
to archival work, manuscripts and biographical information
The editing of journals and book series
Editing for, and publishing on, the web
Using electronic editorial tools
Palaeography
The use of texts from different discourses in interdisciplinary research
Hypertext
Copyright
Event dates: 6-7th June 2005 at De Montfort University, Leicester
This is a postgraduate event, featuring two guest speakers.
For further information, please contact
Gavin Cole
Address: De Montfort University
Clephan Building
Faculty Humanities
The Gateway
LE1 9BH
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