Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing and consent of instructor. - An introduction to editing in several arts, media, and disciplines, with the world of publishing in mind. Among the matters to be considered: copyright and intellectual property; plagiarism; sources; translation; annotation; the establishing of a trustworthy text; making mistakes; revision; prejudices; intentions and their relations to understanding (I know what this means but what did the author mean by it?). Within the Spring semester 2024, attention will recur – among much else– to the many arts for which Samuel Beckett in particular showed genius: drama (stage, screen, radio), film, fiction, poetry, criticism of literature and of the arts.

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