Textual Scholarship and the History of the Book: Comparative Approaches
Provisional Programme
Thursday, 23 November
Registration 9.30
Plenary 1: 10.00-11.00
Almuth Grésillon (ITEM, Paris ) - Genetic Criticism, the Notion of avant-texte and the Question of Editing. Chair: Wim Van Mierlo
Break 11-11.30
Parallel Session 1: 11.30-13.00
a. Editing and the History of Scholarship (Chair: David Ganz)
M.J. Teeuwen (Huygens Instituut) - The Impossible Task of Editing a Ninth-Century Commentary: The Case of Martianus Capella
Bonnie Mak ( University of British Columbia ) - The Ends(s) of the Text
Regina Jucknies ( University of Cologne ) - The Beginning of Textual Scholarship in Sweden
b. Editing Folklore (chair: Marita Mathijsen)
Maggie Gover - Editing Witchcraft: Modern Reproductions of Early Modern Witchcraft Pamphlets
Paulius Subacius ( Vilnius University ) - How a Poem Became a Book of Poetry: Conflict of Folkloristic, Literary and Linguistic Approaches in the Publications of a Nineteenth-Century Classic of Lithuanian Literature
Lunch 13.00-14.00
Book Launch, The Evolution of Texts: Confronting Stemmatological and Genetical Methods (Linguistica Computazionale)
Tour of the Palaeography Room, Senate House Library
Parallel Session 2: 14.00-15.30
a. Traditions and Methods (chair: Caroline Macé)
Alpita de Jong ( University of Amsterdam ) - The History of Never-Published Texts
Nicholas A.E. Kalospyros - On the Shoulders of Giants: Appraising the Criterion of divinatio in the cases of Adamance Coray and A. E. Housman
b. The Texts of Samuel Beckett (chair: Geert Lernout)
Chris Ackerley ( University of Otago ) - Editing Beckett: Watt
Dirk Van Hulle ( University of Antwerp ) - Genetic Editing: Beckett's Multiple Intentions
Mark Nixon ( University of Reading ) - Beckett Publishing / Publishing Beckett in the 1930s
Break 15.30-16.00
Parallel Session 3: 16.00-17.30
a. Sociology of the Text and History of the Book I (chair: Burghard Dedner)
Susan Kovacs (Université Charles de Gaulle III, Lille ) - Discourse Analysis and Book History: The Literary Anthology as Social Dialogue
John Hinks ( University of Leicester ) - Book, Text, Culture: Three Histories or One?
b. Textual Scholarship and Religious Texts (chair: Warwick Gould)
Chaim Milikowsky ( Bar Illan University ) - Reflections on the Practice of Textual Criticism in the Study of Rabbinic Literature: Is it Legitimate, is it Feasible to Attempt to Recover the (Most) Original Text?
Geert Lernout ( University of Antwerp ) - Holy Writ and Philology
W.J. Phillips-Rodriguez ( University of Cambridge ) - Travelling manuscripts: mapping contamination in the Mahabharata tradition
18.00-19.00 Reception
Sponsored by Rodopi, publisher of Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
Friday, 24 November
Registration 9.30
Plenary 2: 10.00-11.00
Nigel Wilson ( Oxford ) - Shedding New Light on Ancient Texts: The Archimedes Palimpsest. Chair: Chris Carey
Break 11.00-11.30
Parallel Session 4: 11.30-13.00
a. Sociology of the Text and History of the Book II (Chair: Hans Walter Gabler)
Christine Pawley ( University of Wisconsin ) - Market Models and Textual Practices: A Reading- and Writing-Centred Account
Cecil Courtney ( University of Cambridge ) - The Authority of the Text Versus the Sociology of the Text: A Case Study-Montesquieu's Temple de Gnide (1725-1800)
Simon R. Frost ( Aarhus University ) - Masterworks and Merchandise: Getting the Goods from Middlemarch
b. New Textualities (chair: Clara Rowland)
Juri Joensuu ( University of Jyväskylä ) - Productive Poetic Technologies: Notes on the Textual Media in Contemporary 'Procedural' Writing
Jeffrey Knight (Northwestern University) - How Books Tell Stories: Textualism, Literature and the Problem of History
Clara Rowland ( University of Lisbon ) - Forms of Crossing: Book and Margin in the Work of Guimarães Rosa
Lunch 13.00-14.00
Tour of the Palaeography Room, Senate House Library
Parallel Session 5: 14.00-15.30
a. Case Studies in Textual Criticism I (chair: John Lavagnino)
Travis Feldman ( University of Washington ) - Theorizing Manuscript Production and Publishability: Developments in the Textual Scholarship of William Blake's Four Zoas
Peter Shillingsburg (De Montfort University) - Editing Thackeray's The Four Georges
Sukanta Chaudhuri ( Jadavpur University Kolkata) - Editing and Translating Tagore: The Textual Challenges
b. Material Textualities in Antiquity (chair: Karen Ní Mheallaig)
Juan Garces (King's College London) - Carved in Stone - Insubstantial Words: What Epigraphers and Editors of Classical Literature Could Learn from Each other
Karen Ní Mheallaigh ( University of Wales, Swansea ) - Exploring One's Textuality: The Material Book Becomes Fiction
Break 15.30-16.00
Parallel Session 6: 16.00-17.30
a. New Technologies in Textual Scholarship I (chair: Barbara Bordalejo)
Maria João Brilhante ( University of Lisbon ) - New Technologies and the Making of Theatre History
John Lavagnino (King's College London) - Revising the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450-1700 .
Julia Briggs (De Montfort University) - Electrifying Virginia Woolf
b. Authorship and Attribution Studies (chair: Kathleen Palti)
Ioanna Hadjicosti (University College London) - Mis-assignments That Are Leading Us Astray: Aeschylus' Kares/Europa and TrGrFr iii fr.**88
Christopher E. Garrett ( Texam A&M University ) - The Problem of Authorship in Seventeenth-Century Devotional Literature: Examining the Attribution History of T.S. (a.k.a. Thomas Sherman)
Kathleen Palti ( University College London ) - A Fifteenth-Century Songbook: Reading Anonymity
17.45-19.45 ESTS Board Meeting
Saturday, 25 November
Plenary 3: 10.00-11.00
John Gouws ( Rhodes University ) - Why 'Text happens' won't do for Fulke Greville (or anyone else). Chair: Warwick Gould
Break 11-11.30
Parallel Session 7: 11.30-13.00
a. Debates in Textual Scholarship I (chair: Wim Van Mierlo)
Chris Tiffin ( University of Queensland ) - The Pluralist Fallacy in Critical Editing
Hans Walter Gabler ( University of Munich ) - Bibliography Virtualized: or, Scholarly Editing as a Function of the Document
b. Manuscript and Print Culture (chair: Simon Frost)
Rita Marquilhas ( University of Lisbon ) - Epistolary Culture in History: Textual and Graphical Features of Portuguese Letters
Damien Keane (SUNY Buffalo) - 'Weird and Useless Books': Publication, Reception and Propaganda
Lunch 13.00-14.00
General Members Meeting
Parallel Session 8: 14.00-15.30
a. New Technologies in Textual Scholarship II (chair: Michael Stolz)
José Camões ( University of Lisbon ) - The Luxury of Simplicity: From Hypertext to Text
Chris Howe and Heather F. Windram ( University of Cambridge ) - Analysis of the Monarchia Tradition: Comparing Phylogenetic and Traditional Methods
b. Case Studies in Textual Criticism II (chair: João Dionísio)
Burghard Dedner ( University of Marburg ) - Texts and Sources: Techniques of Research and Evaluation
Ana Claudia Da Silva ( University of Oxford ) - The Materiality of the Text in Critical Editions: The Case of Machado de Assis' Novels
João Dionísio ( University of Lisbon ) - An Essay with a View: Wenceslau de Moraes' 'Fernão Mendes Pinto no Japão'
Break 15.30-16.00
Parallel Session 9: 16.00-17.30
a. Bibliography and Digital Texts (chair: Ronald Schuchard)
Marita Mathijsen ( University of Amsterdam ) - Textual Criticism in a New Era
Barbara Bordalejo ( University of Birmingham ) - Bibliographical Description of Electronic Books
Peter Robinson ( University of Birmingham ) - The Materiality of the Digital Text
b. Debates in Textual Scholarship II (chair: Chris Ackerley)
Bodo Plachta ( University of Amsterdam ) - More Than Mise-en-Page: Buchsmuck in the German Editorial Tradition
Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth ( Göttingen Academy of Sciences ) - Editorial Scholarship and Studies in Literature: Reflections on their Relationship from a German Perspective
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