{"title":"Jean Toomer's Magazine Auras","authors":"John K. Young","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35537","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on George Bornstein's idea of a \"textual aura\", this essay proposes a distinct instantiation of this effect arising from the particular circumstances of periodical publication and reception, a magazine aura. Jean Toomer's publications in a range of modernist magazines illustrate the manifestations of a magazine aura, with particular attention to Toomer's appearances in Broom and The Little Review.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121629320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dante, Music, and Lyric","authors":"M. Camboni","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35543","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Dante's works contain a wealth of musical references, and his linguistic treatise, De vulgari eloquentia, is an invaluable source of knowledge regarding the performance practice of contemporary lyric poetry. Despite these indisputable facts, several scholars have cast doubt on Dante's actual musical knowledge, and the extent to which we can interpret his references to musical performance as representing historical practice. This paper explores the issue of musical performance of lyric poems, both by Dante and as represented within Dante's works. It addresses the question of Dante's first-hand experience of melodic delivery of lyric poems, the meanings of musical terms in De vulgari eloquentia, Dante's thoughts on sung performance and its relationship with texts, and every instance in which there is a suggestion that a poem by Dante was sung during his lifetime.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114301446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Bornstein, In Memoriam","authors":"John K. Young","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35533","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay cluster in <i>Textual Cultures</i> commemorates the scholarly legacy of George Bornstein (1942–2021).</p>","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126916761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is Scholarly Editing?","authors":"P. Shillingsburg","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35534","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholarly Editing is distinguished here from all other editing by declaring the two rules that scholarly editing requires: to know and make known all relevant facts and to exercise informed judgment while following explicit principles for and details of the editorial work.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132628164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emergence of Efficient Musical Texts during the Age of Reason","authors":"Ronald Broude, Mary Cyr","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35540","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Modern Western musical notation is \"efficient\" in the sense that every element of a text corresponds to an essential element of the composition represented and to an essential element of every valid performance of that composition. Western notation became efficient only during the eighteenth century. Previously, much Western music — especially music for solo instrument and small ensemble — operated on pretextual, oral principles: it was performed in small communities dominated by celebrated performer/composers who re-created compositions with each performance; their students were taught to perform in this quasi-improvisational way. In such circumstances, a composition could be represented by many different texts. Notation became efficient when increasing numbers of recreational amateurs required music that did not have to be re-created with each performance and that could be learned by realizing texts literally. Printers and composers accommodated them. As texts became efficient, compositions became stable entities defined by texts established by their composers.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132907275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Harmony of the Spheres and Dante's Paradiso","authors":"Francesco Ciabattoni","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35544","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article proposes a reading of Dante's treatment of the harmony of the spheres in the Paradiso, against the backdrop of classical and Christian views of the earlier Pythagorean notion. Rooted in textual evidence, the study highlights Dante's subtlety in dealing with an extraordinarily evocative subject that had nevertheless been refuted by Aristotelian theologians and thus constituted a contentious issue in the acoustic physics and metaphysics of the late Middle Ages.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122244319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Textual Scholarship in the Situation","authors":"Matt Cohen","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35532","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay, a version of which was presented as the 2022 Society for Textual Scholarship Presidential Address, considers the state of textual scholarship in light of converging disasters of our moment — human-induced climate change, resurgent xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, territorial warfare, violent racism, and a humanistic academy under attack from both without and within. After surveying important recent textual scholarly work in queer studies, African American literature, Native American studies, and archival studies, the essay gestures to emerging domains of theoretical and practical work on which textual scholars might draw to encourage the development of survival-oriented philology in the present.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125350634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Dante and Music","authors":"M. Zaccarello","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i2.35541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35541","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay cluster in <i>Textual Cultures</i> considers the importance of music in Dante.</p>","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131713305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Provoked by Translation","authors":"T. Mathews","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i1.34494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i1.34494","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An evocation of translation as process, and the voices discovered. Followed by some notes on research fields; and on translation, editing, and self-editing.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116734944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Found Poems and Creative Editing","authors":"A. Robinson","doi":"10.14434/tc.v15i1.34499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i1.34499","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that the creation of found poetry, especially 'pure' found poetry is more an act of creative editing than creative writing. Using some practice-based research from a 'pure' found poem in my poetry collection Whatsname Street, published by Smokestack Books in 2021, I discuss how dealing with making a poem from another text is an act of creative editing in that it usually aims to keep something coherent and whole about the original text whilst changing it in some form. In the case of the poem under discussion, the changes consider the text's intentions and they are also acts of translation.","PeriodicalId":293597,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123638699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}