| Title |
A hermeneutics of authorial and editorial integrities in The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot |
| Authors |
Levina, Jūratė |
| DOI |
10.4000/15do7 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Variants: The journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship: Authors and their drafts in context.. Amsterdam : European Society for Textual Scholarship. 2025, vol. 19, p. 121-138.. ISSN 1573-3084. eISSN 1879-6095 |
| Keywords [eng] |
scholarly editing ; complete works edition ; Eliot (T. S.) ; authorship ; collected editions ; editorial authoriality |
| Abstract [eng] |
The paper draws on Paul Ricœur’s theory of discourse to propose a hermeneutic definition of the author as a functional and semantic correlative of a work and examine The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot as a case of a comprehensive editorial redesignation of Eliot’s own authorial self-positionings. The editors construct a single chronology for Eliot’s linguistic productions in various stages of composition and publication to present a coherent development of his public persona. The phonocentric focus of the construed line of development and material dimensions of the print medium chosen for the edition inform the reconstruction and lead to disregarding Eliot’s strategies of self-authoring by editing, or failing to completely edit, his writings into larger semantic configurations, or works. |
| Published |
Amsterdam : European Society for Textual Scholarship |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2025 |
| CC license |
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