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The Production of Literary Research Sources

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

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The Production of Literary Research Sources

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  1. The Production of Literary Research Sources

  2. Critic’s Tools: Literary Evidence Use to determine or support the truth of a claim.

  3. Emily Dickinson Did Dickinson’s seclusion from society inform her poetry?

  4. Possible Supporting Evidence • Correspondence • Biographies • Poems • Critics’ analyses • OED

  5. Post-Postmodern Literary Evidence • Text messages • YouTube • Tweets • Email • Digital Archives • Poetry slams • Blogs

  6. Categories of Literary Evidence • Primary • Secondary • Tertiary

  7. Primary Sources of Literary Evidence AND

  8. Secondary Sources of Literary Evidence • Critical articles • Book reviews • Biographies • Dissertations • Conference Papers

  9. Secondary Sources Critical Analysis: Catherine Golden’s article: “Marking Her Territory: Feline Behavior in "The Yellow Wall-Paper,” published in the periodical American Literary Realism, 2008. Book Review Janet Beer’s review of Golden’s boo: The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilmanappeared in the October 1, 2002 issue of Modern Language Review Biography Ann J. Lane’s To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published by University of Virginia Press in 1997.

  10. Tertiary Sources of Literary Evidence • Literary dictionaries • Encyclopedias • Spark Notes • OED

  11. Tertiary Sources: Examples

  12. Flow of Literary Evidence

  13. Charlotte Perkins Gilman . Image: The Forerunner

  14. Flow of Evidence: “Yellow Wall-Paper”

  15. Unpublished Manuscripts

  16. Primary Sources: Types of Editions • Facsimile • Variorum • Authoritative/Definitive • Mass market/trade • E-text

  17. Authoritative Editions The authoritative edition is a fundamental tool in literary studies.

  18. Authoritative Editions The reader is given what the author intended.

  19. Authoritative Editions The purpose of a scholarly edition is to present a reliable text.

  20. Authoritative Editions Critics and scholars victims of incompetent editors, proof-correctors, and publishers.

  21. 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.”

  22. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Corrupted Editions box becomes fox cottage becomes cabbage bloody becomes beastly bugger becomes beggar

  23. 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”

  24. Expurgated Texts: Sniffing Out the Smut Richard Wright’s Native Son Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Chaucer’s Wife of Bath

  25. Corruption of a Text: YWP

  26. 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.

  27. Yellow Wall-Paper: Corrupted Section Breaks

  28. “Yellow Wall-Paper”: Publication History

  29. How do I know my text is authoritative?

  30. The best way to determine the authority of an edition is to read professional reviews of the edition.

  31. Editor’s choice of the copy-text determines the reliability of an edition.

  32. Julie Dock’s copy text for the YWP: The New England Magazine in January, 1892.

  33. Authoritative Editions Using sound textual principles, scholarly editors: • 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

  34. Current Authoritative Editions • Uncollected primary works • Recent scholarship

  35. 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.

  36. Types of Literary Scholarship • Journal articles • Conference papers • Essays • Books • Dissertations

  37. Who Writes Literary Scholarship? • Professors • Graduate students • Independent scholars

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