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Watts, Cedric
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dc.date.accessioned
2020-07-02T19:42:07Z
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dc.date.available
2020-07-02T19:42:07Z
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dc.date.issued
2019
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dc.identifier.citation
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 54 (2019), pp. 179–198
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dc.identifier.issn
0081-6272
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dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10593/25662
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dc.description.abstract
Cambridge University Press’s vast project to produce authoritative new editions of the literary works of Joseph Conrad is now well advanced; but the project is flawed. I maintain that this is the Titanic of editions: big, costly, important, and disastrous. I specify “the literary works”, because I am not concerned with the admirable volumes of Conrad’s letters. The industrious Cambridge editors have done excellent work in correcting longstanding errors and in bringing to light much textual material which was previously lost. The edition is therefore indispensable. The editors have, however, deleted much house styling and correction: “successive layers of non-authorial intervention affecting wording and ‘accidentals’ – punctuation, spelling and word-division”. The result of the Cambridge editorial procedures is a Conradian prose which is often impoverished and is sometimes even ungrammatical and uncouth. In removing much punctuation, the editors have often removed logical clarity and rhetorical effectiveness. In this essay, therefore, I use a sequence of comparisons to demonstrate the presence of a pattern of flaws. The sequences are taken from Notes on Life and Letters, ’Twixt Land and Sea / Tales, Last Essays, Lord Jim, and The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. I compare extracts from the Cambridge texts with extracts taken from other editions.
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dc.language.iso
eng
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dc.publisher
Adam Mickiewicz University
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dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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dc.subject
Cambridge University Press
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dc.subject
Joseph Conrad
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dc.subject
editions
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dc.subject
editorial criteria
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dc.subject
house styling
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dc.subject
logical clarity
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dc.subject
rhetorical effectiveness
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dc.title
The Titanic series: Reflections on Cambridge University Press’s edition of the literary works of Joseph Conrad
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dc.type
Artykuł
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dc.identifier.doi
10.2478/stap-2019-0009
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