1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Concept of 'Text' in Early Printings, especially in Wynkyn de Worde's Editing
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05610392
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION |
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Principal Investigator |
MUKAI Tsuyoshi Naruto Univ.of Education Associate Prof., 学校教育学部, 助教授 (40136627)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
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| Keywords | early printings / manuscripts / text / authors' rights / copyrights / de Worde / stationers' company / editing |
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| Research Abstract |
This research is aimed to make clear the concept of text in early printers, especially the textual concept of Wynkyn de Worde, a representative editor-printer working in the transitional period from manuscript to print. By examining a variety of his editions, it is proved that de Worde has a more acute awareness of 'correct text' than scribes but that his textual correctheness is varied according to the external and internal factors of the published books : is the author alive or dead? ; is he a popular author? ; dose the book have a patron for its publication or not? ; does the language/content of the book suits the customers' literary taste? The texts of Chaucer, Malory, Hawes, and Ipomydon, Scale of Perfectio are examined and by comparing de Worde's editing in each case, the printer's idea of text is elicidated. One typical aspect of his idea, for example, is illustrated by his change of editing attidutes : he tries to reproduce the faithful text in S.Hawes'Example of Vertu while the author is alive, but he revises the text in the posthumous edition. Such is the nature of early printers' concept of text, though the concept of authors' rights/copyrights, as is observed in th records of the stationers' company, is emerging.
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