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- Title
The Wordes Moote be Cosyn to the Dede: Diplomatic Transcription and Shifting Senses of Exactness Toward the Ecosystem of Digital Reproduction.
- Authors
Ascher, James P.
- Abstract
Using a passage from Chaucer's Monk's Tale, this paper closely reads networks of readers and scholars through the lens of efforts toward exact transcriptions. It examines paratexts, apparatuses, methodologies, and labor as emblems of the underlying politics of literary reproduction and the difficulties of exactness. I argue that closely reading previous editor's efforts toward exactness crucially informs digital reproduction. Thus, the historical materials examined are all editions of Chaucer where the author made some effort at exactness. The different approaches are unpacked into their functions of aesthetics, semiotics, and comparison. The paper concludes considering these functions as enabling a discussion of the possibility of best-practices for reading and creation in the Age of the Digital Reproduction.
- Subjects
TRANSCRIPTION (Linguistics); DIGITIZATION; CANTERBURY Tales: The Monk's Tale; CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400; PARATEXT
- Publication
Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture, 2011, Vol 4, p8
- ISSN
1946-1992
- Publication type
Article