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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: This book was written at the invitation of the publishers, who wanted a replacement for Paul Maas's Textkritik (3rd ed., 1957) and O. Stahlin's Editionstechnik (2nd ed., 1914). Stahlin's work, the only detailed treatment of editorial method, was excellent in its day, but many of its recommendations have been left behind by fashion. Maas's work will not date in the same way, for the canons of textual criticism have long been established, and fashion can only bring aberrations or alternative formulations; but it is too one-sided to be satisfactory as a general introduction. It emphasizes the stemmatic aspect of textual analysis, and treats contamination as a regrettable deviation about which nothing can be done, instead of as a normal state of affairs. I have tried in Part I of the present manual to redress the balance, and given some practical advice on dealing with contaminated traditions, which I think is new. Otherwise there is little here that cannot be found in other works on textual criticism, of which there are plenty. I could draw up a formidable list of such works if I thought the student ought to read them. But textual criticism is not something to be

Author

Martin Litchfield West

Publisher

B. G. Teubner

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9783519074014

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24