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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