Abstract

In “Some Functions of Textual Criticism”, Peter Shillingsburg comments the homogenising effect of the poetry anthology. By effacing the social and material contexts in which its poems were first produced, and by reproducing them all “in the same type font with approximately the same margins and spaces between the lines” (60) they belie the individuality of each individual poem. The same observation can be made of an essay collection. The thirteen essays contained in Textuality and Knowledge s...

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