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David Greetham (textual scholar)

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31: 161:, maintaining the goal of establishing an authoritative text while allowing the possibility that multiple authorized versions can exist. In his later work, Greetham has moved away from the idea that an editor can establish a "psychic" connection with the author through which he or she can determine the author's true intentions, instead seeing editing as an occasion for reflections on the ideology underlying scholarly practice. 141:
describes Greetham as "drawn to texts that spill over the boundaries of genre, that exist in multiple versions, that explore intertextuality, and that complicate in various other ways the notion of text as fixed or stable." In his works, Greetham has sought to co-opt "the terminology and practice of
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Greetham was one of the founders of the Society for Textual Scholarship and served as the Society's President from 1999 to 2001. Founded in 1979, the Society provides an interdisciplinary forum for presentation of research in a number of textual disciplines. Notable past members have included
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literary theory in re-designating textual operations in the guise of ... literature, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, history, political science, linguistics, psychology, philosophy."
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As a theorist of scholarly editing, Greetham has taken up a middle ground between
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Werner, Marta (2008). "Signals from a Distance: Editing, Telepathy, Elegy".
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Textual Transgressions: Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography
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Greetham died on March 24, 2020, from a long-illness at the age of 78.
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The Margins of the Text: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism
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Mathijsen, Marita (2002). "The Concept of Authorisation".
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TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies
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Greetham received his undergraduate degree from the
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Greetham leaning on windowsill
Cheshire
England
Textual scholarship
The Graduate Center, CUNY
University of Oxford
City University of New York
Marta Werner
D'Youville College
intentionalist
G. Thomas Tanselle
social textual criticism
Jerome McGann
G. Thomas Tanselle
Paul Oskar Kristeller
Fredson Bowers
Jerome McGann
JSTOR
30227799
Theories of the Text
ISBN
9780198119937
doi
10.2979/TEX.2008.3.1.3
S2CID
143642931
"The Graduate Center Mourns the Loss of Retired Professor David Greetham"
Graduate Center
City University New York
"The Society for Textual Scholarship"

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