Syllabus
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TEXTUAL EDITING & MODERNISM IN CANADA
WEEK 1: THEORY (AUGUST 1–5)
WEEK 2: PROJECT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT (AUGUST 8–12)
Zailig Pollock
Trent University
Email: zpollock@trentu.ca
TIME AND PLACE
All seminars and presentations in each week will take place in a location to be announced on the Symons Campus of Trent University. There will be two seminars each day and guest speakers most days.
Morning Seminar: 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon.
Lunch: 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker: 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Afternoon Seminar: 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. when there is a guest speaker; 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. when there isn’t a guest speaker
WEEK 1
DESCRIPTION
In week 1 of TEMiC we will undertake an intensive study of contemporary editorial theory in Canada and abroad, focussing on such issues as social text and genetic editing, archives and digital archives, print and digital publication, and specific case studies of Canadian editions. Week 2 will consist of a series of sessions devoted to specific issues in editorial project management. Both weeks will be supplemented by talks by visiting speakers, who will also serve as mentors to EMiC emerging scholars.
SEMINAR SESSIONS
Institute participants are expected to complete the readings in advance of our seminar sessions and to take turns in leading discussions. For the readings which have been assigned to you, see the schedule below. Consider it your responsibility to generate questions for discussion and to lead the rest of the seminar group in a discussion of salient issues. You should be prepared to speak for roughly 10-15 minutes in total to set up your discussion questions. This means, for instance, that you might speak for up to 5 minutes, pose a question, and participate in and moderate discussion for 5 or so more minutes; repeat this process a couple more times and we should be able to get some momentum going.
READINGS
Readings are listed below. All texts are available in electronic format through the EMiC website. Hard copies will NOT be available at Trent.
GUEST SPEAKERS
This year we will have 7 guest speakers, including 2 alumni from previous TEMiCs:
Week 1
- Alan Filewod, University of Guelph
- Marc Fortin (alumnus), Queen’s University
- Catherine Hobbs, Library and Archives Canada
- Hannah McGregor (alumna), University of Guelph
Week 2
- Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University
- Matt Huculak, Dalhousie University
- Dean Irvine, Dalhousie University
SCHEDULE
MONDAY, AUGUST 1: SURVEYING THEORY
Morning: Overview
- Peter L. Shillingsburg, “Part 1: Theory,” Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age: Theory and Practice, 3rd ed. (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996): 1–100. [Zailig Pollock]
No Speaker
Afternoon: Two Classic Papers
- W.W. Greg, “The Rationale of Copy-Text,” Studies in Bibliography 3 (1950-1951): 19-37 [Shannon Maguire]
- D.F. McKenzie, “The Sociology of a Text: Orality, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand,” The Library, 6th series, 6: 333–365. Reprinted in David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleary, eds, The Book History Reader, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006): 205–231. [Robert Dawson]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2: SOCIAL-TEXT AND GENETIC EDITING
Morning: Social-Text Editing
- Jerome McGann, “The Socialization of Texts,” The Textual Condition (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991): 69–87. [Ron East]
- Donald H. Reiman, “‘Versioning’: The Presentation of Multiple Texts,” Romantic Texts and Contexts (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1987): 167–89. [Sarah Kastner]
- Oscar Ryan, “Unity: A One-Act Play,” Eight Men Speak, and Other Plays from the Canadian Workers’ Theatre, eds. Richard Bruce Wright and Robin Endres (Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1976): 97-106.
Speaker: Alan Filewod on the Eight Men Speak project and revolutionary modernism in the theatre.
Afternoon: Genetic Editing
- Hans Walter Gabler, “Genetic Texts – Genetic Editions – Genetic Criticism; or, Towards Discoursing the Genetics of Writing,” Problems of Editing, ed. Christa Jansohn (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999): 59–78. [Robert Ian Jones]
- Zailig Pollock, “The Editor as Storyteller,” Challenges, Projects, Texts: Canadian Editing, eds. John Lennox and Janet Paterson (New York: AMS, 1993): 54–69.
- John L. Bryant, “The Pleasures of the Fluid Text,” The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002): 112– 140. [Melissa Dalgleish]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3: FROM ARCHIVES TO DIGITAL ARCHIVES AND EDITIONS
Morning: Archives
- Terry Cook, “Fashionable Nonsense or Professional Rebirth: Postmodernism and the Practice of Archives,” Archivaria 51 (Sept. 2001). [Gene Kondusky]
- Catherine Hobbs, “The Character of Personal Archives: Reflections on the Value of Records of Individuals,” Archivaria 52 (Fall 2001). [Eric Schmaltz]
- Sarah Nuttall, “Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts,” Refiguring the Archive, ed. Carolyn Hamilton, et al. (Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2002): 283-300. [Mina Shekarbani]
Speaker: Catherine Hobbs on personal archives
Afternoon: Digital Archives and Editions
- Ed Folsom, “Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives,” PMLA 122 (October 2007): 1571–579. [Melanie Unrau]
- Jonathan Freedman, et al., “Responses to Ed Folsom’s ‘Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives,” PMLA 122 (October 2007): 1580–1612. [Robert Dawson]
- Jerome McGann, “The Rationale of Hypertext,” Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004): 53–74. [Ron East]
- Kenneth M. Price, “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3 (2009): n.pag. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000053.html [Mina Shekarbani]
Some examples
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4: CANADIAN MODERNIST EDITIONS (1)
Morning: Survey
- W.H. New, “Some Comments on the Editing of Canadian Texts,” Editing Canadian Texts, ed. Frances G. Halpenny (Toronto: A.M. Hakkert, 1975): 13–31. [Eric Schmaltz]
- Roy Miki, “The Future’s Tense, Editing Canadian Style,” Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Toronto: Mercury, 1998): 34–53, 216–24. [Robert Ian Jones]
- Dean Irvine, “Editing Canadian Modernism,” English Studies in Canada 33.1 (March/June 2007): 53–84. [Sarah Kastner]
Speaker: Marc Fortin on editing Marius Barbeau
NOTE
For Print Editions (1) and Print Editions (2), on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, we will be closely examining the rationales and procedures as laid out by four editors. For these two seminars everyone should read this material. In addition, each presenter will discuss the relevant selection along with the editorial material, in relation to the editors’ stated rationales and procedures. All of the Klein and Brooker material will be available digitally. For Pratt and Wilkinson, the introductory editorial material will be available digitally, but you will be asked to photocopy the poems you have chosen to discuss and the relevant notes, for distribution to the class.
Afternoon: Print Editions (1)
- E.J. Pratt [Gene Kondusky]
Texts: one or more of: “The Shark,” “The Man and the Machine,” “From Stone to Steel,” “The Baritone,” “Silences,” “Come Away, Death,” Complete Poems, eds. R.G. Moyles and Sandra Djwa (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1989).
Editorial Material: “Note on the Text,” Vol.1: xliv–lii.
- A.M. Klein [Shannon Maguire]
Text: “Gloss Gimel: Excerpt from Letter: ‘On First Seeing the Sistine Chapel’,” The Second Scroll, eds. Elizabeth Popham and Zailig Pollock (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000): 71-78.
Editorial Material: Elizabeth Popham and Zailig Pollock, “Editorial Procedures” and relevant pages from “Textual Notes” and “Explanatory Notes”
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5: CANADIAN MODERNIST EDITIONS (2)
Morning: Print Editions (2)
- Anne Wilkinson [Melissa Dalgleish]
Texts: one or more of: “Still Life,” “I was born a boy …,” “Lens,” “In June and Gentle Oven,” Carol,” “Letter to My Children,” “Poem in Three Parts,” “Nature Be Damned,” “Death in America,” “A Sorrow of Stones,” “Variations on a Theme,” “Letter to My Children” [long version], “Notes on Suburbia,” Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1924–1961, ed. Dean Irvine (Montreal: Véhicule, 2003).
Editorial Material: “Editorial Procedures” and “Textual Notes,” 205–215.
- Bertram Brooker [Shannon Maguire]
Text: “Nudes and Prudes,” The Wrong World: Selected Stories & Essays of Bertram Booker, ed. Gregory Betts (U of Ottawa P, 2009): 79-88.
Editorial Material: “Textual Chronology” and “Editorial Procedures” and relevant pages from “Explanatory Notes” and “Textual Emendations and Revisions.” See also textual apparatus online: http://www.uopress.uottawa.ca/clc/Brooker/author.htm.
Speaker: Hannah McGregor, “Martha Ostenso: An Author without an Archive, an Archive without an Author”
Afternoon: Digital Editions
- E.J. Pratt: The Complete Poems and Letters of E.J. Pratt A Hypertext Edition, eds. Zailig Pollock and Elizabeth Popham http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/pratt/ [Melanie Unrau]
- The Digital Page, ed. Zailig Pollock [Zailig Pollock]
WEEK 2
The structure in Week 2 will be more open-ended than in week 1. On the first day each participant, including the instructor, will present a brief account (roughly 10-15 minutes) of the project in which they are currently involved. These reports should address the following questions (as well as any others you have in mind):
- Who is the audience for your project?
- What is the basic editorial approach that the project follows?
- What kinds of materials does it contain?
- What is your involvement in the project and what are your responsibilities?
- What are some editions that your project has taken as a model?
- What do you see as key issues or challenges in your project?
The responses to these reports will form the basis of ongoing discussions in the days that follow. Some of the issues which we may want to deal with are applying for funding, budgeting resources, establishing timelines, negotiating permissions and contracts, establishing training and mentorship roles, following best practices in digitization and data storage, and developing editorial principles and procedures, and choosing digital tools and software, but nothing is off the table. The experiences of our guest speakers with their own projects will enrich the discussion.
We will keep track of our discussions and prepare a summary of key issues which will be posted on the EMiC website and which will form a basis for future TEMiC sessions. Each of you will also be asked to post a blog post on at least one of the morning or afternoon discussions.
In preparation for the course, please check out Meagan Timney’s blog post on her Digital Editions course at DEMiC, http://editingmodernism.ca/?s=digital+editions. It is excellent and should provide you with some valuable pointers. I have plagiarized it shamelessly.
The following is the schedule for the speaker presentations for Week 2:
TUESDAY
Speaker: Carole Gerson on editorial problems: misgivings, mistakes, and solutions.
Readings:
- Carole Gerson and Veronica Jane Strong-Boag, “Introduction: ‘The Firm Handiwork of Will,” E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002): xiii-xlii.
- Joan Coldwell, “Walking the Tightrope with Anne Wilkinson,” Editing Women, eds. Ann Hutchison and Margaret Doody. (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1998: 3-25.
WEDNESDAY
Speaker: Matt Huculak, on project guidelines for digitization and data storage
Reading:
THURSDAY
Speaker: Zailig Pollock on putting the pieces of a digital edition together
Reading:
- Emily Ballantyne and Zailig Pollock, “Respect des fonds and the Digital Page,” Archival Narratives for Canada (Fernwood P, forthcoming 2011).
FRIDAY
Speaker: Dean Irvine on the philosophical background to EMiC’s Digital Commons
Reading:
- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Modernity (and the Landscapes of Altermodernity),” Commonwealth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009): 67-128