Editorial Studies

• CAS EI 501: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
  An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. Featuring a dozen visiting speakers and attending to notable editorial achievements.
• CAS EI 503: Textual Scholarship
  Fundamentals of textual scholarship: bibliography, paleography, typography, textual criticism, and annotation.
• CAS EI 506: Topics in Textual Scholarship and the History of Western Society
  Topic for Spring 2010: The History of the Book.
• CAS EI 507: Editing and Publishing
  An introduction to editing in a publishing context, looking at author-relations; kinds of book; internal construction; and methods, costs, and impact of the book’s physical realization.
• CAS EI 508: Editing Across the Disciplines
  An introduction to editorial work in several disciplines, highlighting the practices, problems, and solutions encountered in each and identifying common principles where found. Editorial case histories in English literature, the Bible, classical texts, philosophical works, and music are considered.

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