Editorial Studies

• CAS EI 501: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
  Undergraduate prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. The course features several speakers and attends to notable editorial achievements.
• CAS EI 506: Topics in Textual Scholarship and the History of Western Society
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Topics vary by semester. Topic for Fall 2023: The State of the Language.
• CAS EI 508: Editing Across the Disciplines
  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.