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textual condition: a standalone construct

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Book history

the view, set out by McGann, that a text's meaning lies in its material, social and institutional embodiments across editions and printings, not only in its words.

In book history, textual condition refers to the view, set out by McGann, that a text's meaning lies in its material, social and institutional embodiments across editions and printings, not only in its words. This meaning comes from McGann (1992) in The Textual Condition.[1]

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bibliographic codes1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct book1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct condition2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

McGann, J. J. (1992). The Textual Condition. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691217758

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